As Nietzsche puts it will can of course work only on will and not on matter, on nerves for example.

人尼采所说，意志当然只能对意志起作用，而不能对物质，比如勇气。

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Once you give somebody a promise, you must carry it out on matter what will happen. This is called 'keeping one's words.'

一旦你给了别人承诺，无论发生什么事，你都得实现它，这个就叫‘守诺言’。

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I studied materialism many years ago, saying: space depend on matter, space comes after matter, and space unite with matter.

很多年前我读过唯物主义，讲：空间因物质而生，有了物质才有空间，空间与物质牢不可破。

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Why,it did not matter to him. He would try to make money on anything.

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On Tuesday we'll turn to a more specific subject matter: hermeneutics, what hermeneutics is, how we can think about the nature of interpretation.

周二我们会讲到一个更具体的问题：,即解释学，解释学是什么，我们该如何看待解释学的本质。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

We can have a civil science, because politics is a matter of human making, of human doing, of human goings on.

我们能够拥有民间科学，因为政治关系到人类的产生，人类的生存，人类的延续。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He demonstrated his vast experience on matter of national security, foreign policy.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

But gravitational strings have no sticky ends and can wander freely off into Dr Arkani-Hamed's extra dimensions, where they have no effect on matter stuck to the membranes of the observable universe.

ECONOMIST: A matter of gravity

North Wales AM Aled Roberts tabled an urgent question on the matter on behalf of the Liberal Democracts.

BBC: First minister's questions