Natural philosophy involved the study of all aspects of the material world, animate and inanimate.

自然哲学涉及到了对包括有生命体与无生命体的物质世界的全面研究。

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lower, outer-facing Nature, that is responsible for the material world.

普罗提诺称灵魂低级的部分为自然。 正是灵魂中自然的部分产生出了现实的物质世界。

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Kelly: that sounds almost spiritual-that the material world is really immaterial.

凯利：这听起来有些玄乎——物质世界实际上是非物质的？

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Added to clothing, the material protects security officers and soldiers across the world.

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Spirit is merely a kind of bodily form of energy, and God at the beginning of time infused this energy into the entirety of the material world at the Creation.

灵魂不过是能量的一种物质形式，上帝在时间之始创世纪之际将这能量,注入到了整个物质世界之中。

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We've talked a lot about the capacities of the human mind and some of these capacities involve adapting and dealing with the material world.

我们讲过人类思想的能力,这些能力中包括适应力,以及应付物质世界的能力。

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In this period, many religious radicals claimed that the Church, along with the rest of the material world, was evil.

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The perennial philosophy expresses our innate sense that there is more to human beings and to the material world than meets the eye.

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Andraka, born in 1997, is a science prodigy who has been engaged in inquiry with the material world since he was three.

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