查询词典 efficient cause

In every act of faith this unhesitating assent of the intellect is due to the motion of the will as its efficient cause, and the same must be said of the theological virtue of faith when we consider it as a habit or as a moral virtue, for, as St. Thomas insists (I-II, Q. lvi,), there is no virtue, properly so called, in the intellect except in so far as it is subject to the will.

在每一个信任的行动，这毫不犹豫赞同的智能，这是由于该议案的，将作为其高效的事业，同时必须指出的神学美德的信仰，当我们考虑它作为一种习惯或者作为道德情操，为正如圣托马斯执意（一至二，问： 56 ，），是没有涵养，妥善所谓的，在智力，除非至今，因为它是受意志。

From all this it follows that an efficient cause which is first in the unqualified sense of the term can exist of itself, for what does not actually exist of itself is incapable of existing of itself. Otherwise a nonexistent being would cause something to exist; but this is impossible, even apart from the fact that in such a case the thing would be its own cause and hence could not be entirely uncaused.

由此我们可以得出：在非严格意义上的第一性动力因可以自我存在，因为不能真正自我存在的东西不能自我存在，否则非存在将导致某物存在，即使排除事物是它自身的原因因此不可能完全无因而存在，但这也是不可能的。

But they shut up in matter first the "Demiurgic Word", in which Plato saw the efficient cause of the cosmos; and, then, the transcendently lovable and desirable "Supreme Intelligence", postulated by Aristotle as the final cause of universal activity.

但他们闭嘴，在第一件事& demiurgic字&，在这种柏拉图看到了高效率的原因，宇宙，以及其后， transcendently可爱和可取的&无上智慧&，假设由亚里士多德作为最后的事业在普及活动。

And if you say that the form actuates this potency, this is true, but it does so as a formal cause. Before this actual formation takes place, then, matter and form must be regarded as separate, and that which unites them has the character of an efficient cause.

如果你说形式实现了这一潜能，这是对的，但它是以形式因的方式实现的，在这一赋形实际发生之前，质料和形式必须被看成是隔离的，把它们合成一个整体的是动力因。

He defined science as the demonstrated knowledge of the causes of things, of which there are four types: the material cause,"that from which, as its constitutive material, something comes, for example the bronze of the statue"; the formal, or ideal, cause, what the particular stature is ,its essence of nature, such as its being a bust of plato; the efficient cause, that by which it initially comes into existence,"the source of the first beginning of change," as in "the father is the cause of the child"; and the final cause, its "end" or purpose,"that for the sake of which" something is done, such as "health is of walking around."

亚里斯多德通过严格的演示，探究事物的缘由，用以界定科学。他探究事物的模型有如下四类：物质原因，&由何物所构成，成分，如铸像之青铜&；第二类是形式、想象，如是非常之境况，事物之本质，诸如&柏拉图之名相&；第三类是动因，任何存在凭此而来，&变化伊始的本源力量&，正如&父为子之因&；最后一类是终极之因，作为&事已定&的结论而存在，&健康是走路走出来的&。

Another evident corollary is that the end is the final cause of the effect and not of the efficient cause.

另外一个明显的推论即：目的是结果的终极因，但不是直接原因。

As Aristotle says, they failed to distinguish between the material cause and the efficient cause.

正如亚里士多德说，他们未能区分材料的事业和高效率的事业。

As Aristotle says, they failed to distinguish between the material cause and the efficient cause.

正如亚里士多德说，他们没有区分材料事业和高效率的事业。

The second, however, is false, for the end is not the cause of the efficient cause; neither is the converse ever true.

但是第二个命题是假的，因为目的不是动力因的原因；反之亦假。

11 A second proof for the main conclusion is this. The end is the first cause in causing, wherefore Avicenna calls it the cause of causes. Reason confirms this, for the end moves metaphorically in so far as it is loved, and this is why the efficient cause gives form to the matter.

2.11 对主结论的第二个证明如下：目的是产生因果关系的第一因，因此阿维森纳称之为诸因之因，我们的理性证实了这一点，因为目的只要被仰慕，它就以隐喻的方式运动，这就是动力因把形式赋于物质的原因。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷