They had very little to teach or to impose upon those people rather than vice versa.

他们对其教化和施加的影响微乎其微,相反他们却被影响着

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They only had the occasion in a kind of formless matter upon which they could adopt and impose any form they took.

他们仅有的是,在一种无形物质中的机遇,在其中他们能采纳,并强加任何他们喜欢的形式。

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