Like animals, we possess physical material bodies, but unlike animals, what we are is not physical.

我们和动物一样拥有有形的生理客体,但与动物不同,我们的本质却并非是生理的

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Doesn't it follow that a soul, an immaterial entity, can't be destroyed by a material, physical process?

而灵魂这种,无形的实体,是否会遵循这个规律被物质,也就是物理过程摧毁呢

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Again, notice how bodily, how material and physical Yeats's images of human energy are.

注意叶芝诗里人类能量,多和肉体物质相关的。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

So for some you that are less interested in maybe the physical structure of an individual atom, now some more exciting material for you might be coming up if you like to think about how, instead, molecules behave, either within bonding, within themselves, or with other molecules, that's what we're going to be heading to in this next unit.

那么对于某些同学，你们或许不感兴趣,对于单个原子的物理结构，现在可能有令你感到兴奋的内容,要出现了，如果你更喜欢思考,分子的行为，或者是关于成键的，或者是关于它们本身的，又或者与其它分子之间的行为，这些将是我们下个单元要讲的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

That's a material process, a physical process.

这是一个物质过程,物理过程

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选