There's a sense of aliveness and energy, and in scientific terms everything is pure energy, so it's not that far-fetched.

有一种生机和能量，用科学的话来说，万物都是纯粹的能量，因此上面说法也不为过。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about except that it had something to do with the miserably weary splitting up and my feeling that everything was dead.

我刚熬过一场重大疾病，具体就不说了,只是这与我和妻子不幸的分离有些关系,我感觉万物都没有了生机。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

A progress bar is not supposed to print one hundred lines just to update its status; generally we like to see a little animation.

一个进度条不应该是打印100行,只是更新它的状态，一般地，我们,想看到一点生机。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

He embraces the heterodox idea of monism, sometimes called animist materialism or vitalism, which is essentially a denial of any distinction between the body and the soul.

他赞同一元论的异端观点，一元论也叫做万物有灵论或者生机论,强调肉体和灵魂没有界限。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选