A recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form.

最近的一项研究似乎指出了一个事实，当物质和反物质最初被创造出来的时候，有更多的物质粒子，这使得我们生活的宇宙得以形成。

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The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking.

主妇带着一种近乎绝望的心情，谈到了做饭的问题，这只是形式上的谈论。

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The matter from the explosion will eventually form new stars and planets.

此次爆炸产生的物质最终会形成一些新星和星球。

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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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Notice in that sentence, he uses those Aristotelian terms, " "form" and "matter" that we spoke about in relation to the Aristotelian regime.

注意看这个句子，他使用那些亚里士多德式的词汇，“形式“和，“物质,那是在谈亚里士多德式政体时所见的词汇。

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Very frequently, as is the case in Gadamer, this meaning is called "the subject matter": that is to say, what--in thinking about literature in terms of form and content, let's say--we'd call "content."

高达美，又把这一含义称为主题：,当我们研究文学的,形式和内容方面时，主题即内容“

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Sneha Malde image The universe began with a bang and energy came together to form equal quantities of matter and antimatter, but as the universe cooled and expanded, its composition changed and antimatter disappeared, leaving matter to form everything around us.

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Indeed, if the book has failings, they reflect the author's relatively uncritical attitude towards the powerful and sophisticated Americans who form his subject matter.

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The silver lining is that there will be a need for market-makers, no matter what form they take, and the specialist firms are already positioned.

FORBES: 's Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis