Now why would matter be considered inferior to non-material substance?

那么为什么物质会被认为,比非物质低级呢？

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Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum.

现在他只是云朵的火一般燃烧的心房，并不是由真实的物质构成的。他沿着匪夷所思的弧线摆动，像一只巨大的钟摆。

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This process is termed "replacement" because solutions have dissolved the original material and replaced it with an equal volume of the new substance.

这个过程被称为“置换”，因为溶液溶解了原来的物质，并用等量的新物质取而代之。

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One such material is asphalt, a substance often placed on top of buildings and used to cover road surfaces.

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Some other kind... the body is a material substance.

而其他的一些东西...,比如肉体就是物质实体

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The matter the substance the material basis of a regime concerns its citizen body.

本质，政体的物质基础,是其公民本体最关心的。

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In a letter to her mother, she wrote: ''As a last wish I have asked that my 'material substance' be left to you.

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Since a federal appeals court affirmed the USPTO in In re Bilski, lower courts around the country have adopted the same logic, saying patents must involve a machine or a process that transforms some type of material substance.

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What Transphorm is doing is making new kinds of power conversion devices, based on a material called gallium nitride (a substance best known for its use in LED lighting), which it embeds in modules and sells to equipment manufacturers.

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