Other inventions—the wheel, agriculture, sliced bread—may have transformed our material existence, but the advent of language is what made us human.

其他发明——如车轮、农耕、切片面包——可能改变了我们的物质生活，但语言的出现才真正塑造了人类。

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But when Samuel Johnson was asked to prove the material existence of reality, he just went up to a big stone and kicked it.

但是，当塞缪尔·杰克逊(Samuel Johnson)被要求证明现实的物质存在性时，他只是走到一块大石头跟前，踢了石头一脚。

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Qi was a basic concept of material existence in Chinese ancient philosophy.

气是中国古代哲学中表示物质存在的基本概念。

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And so he concluded, "I knew that I was a substance, the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence, there is no need of any place nor does it depend on any material thing.

因此,他总结到,"我知道我是个实体,是思考主体的本质或本性,而这种思考主体的存在,无需任何空间,也不依赖于任何有形实体

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For most of the species's existence, humans lived in small foraging bands that had little material surplus and therefore enjoyed a relatively egalitarian existence.

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Well, we still don't quite understand the exact nature of dark matter, but highly precise measurements of positron fraction (the ratio of positrons to electrons and protons) do bring us a small step closer to proving the existence of the theoretical material.

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They argue that recent aerodynamic, electronic and material development advances in Japan point to the existence of the appropriate technical skills necessary for Japan to build the FS-X without U.S. participation.

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