人们都在争先恐后地追求物质利益，内心道德的约束早已被抛之脑后，这就是三聚氰胺事件的源头。
People rush to go after material benefits and leave the moral restrictions in the inner world behind. That is the source of the event of Melamine.
格泰斯认为，由于南方的奴隶制妨碍了个人自治和对物质利益的自由追求，北方的主要改革者早在19世纪30年代就反对奴隶制。
Gerteis argues that, since slavery in the South precluded individual autonomy and the free pursuit of material gain, major Northern reformers opposed it as early as the 1830s.
粗略判断(可能不准确)，我认为极简主义者往往能更明确的意识到他们的资源应更好的运用于其他活动，而不是对物质利益的过度追求。
To make a (potentially inaccurate) sweeping judgement, I think minimalists tend to be more aware, that their resources are better spent on other activities rather than the pursuit of material gain.
道德不是追求个人物质利益最大化的手段。
The morals are not means to pursue the maximized personal material interests.
教育的公益性也不反对追求教育的功利价值和效率价值，教育的公共利益其中也包含物质利益；
There is no contradiction between the value of public interests and that of utility and efficiency in education.
技术性思维是一种建立在标准化模式之上，以控制外部自然、追求最佳效率为基本旨趣，以达到物质利益最大化为归宿的思维方式。
With the technique thinking, the mankind created a huge material and the spirit wealth and opened the abundant of the life toward degree.
因为信仰，道德先行于法律，并让人们在物质利益的基础上有了更高的追求。
Faith points to a moral law beyond man's law, and calls us to duties higher than material gain.
因为信仰，道德先行于法律，并让人们在物质利益的基础上有了更高的追求。
Faith points to a moral law beyond man's law, and calls us to duties higher than material gain.
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