People's ideas are shaped by the material reality of their lives.

人们的思想正在形成的物质的现实，他们的生命。

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The style is formed by fortuity and anecdotes plots; long take; vividness of material reality being restored.

他利用情节的偶然性与轶事性；长镜头；物质现实复原的逼真性等手段来造成他的纪实风格。

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In their material reality hidden behind the cloak of the reality of the deep sense of concern and urgent rescue hopes.

而在其物质现实性的外衣背后隐含着的是深切的现实忧患意识和迫切的拯救希望。

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It is how societies reproduce themselves and as such, it lives in social institutions and material reality as much as it lives in the mind.

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