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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Even if you do not actively believe in a particular religion, you will be concerned with an aspect of the universe that is higher than everyday material reality.

即使你不一定会有任何特定的宗教信仰，你也会对超出于物质世界的精神领域有所关注。

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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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