事物

A tight cluster of people or things.

密密麻麻的一群人或事物。

The formal cause tells us what a thing is, that any thing is determined by the definition, form, pattern, essence, whole, synthesis or archetype.

&形式因&告诉我们一个事物是什么，任何事物都是由规定、形式、样式、本质、整体、综合或原型决定的。

And I say that the universal nature employs them equally, instead of saying that they happen alike to those who are produced in continuous series and to those who come after them by virtue of a certain original movement of Providence, according to which it moved from a certain beginning to this ordering of things, having conceived certain principles of the things which were to be, and having determined powers productive of beings and of changes and of such like successions.

我是说宇宙本性同等地利用它们，而不是说它们同样地发生于那些在连续的系列中产生的人和那些在他们之后通过神意的某种原初运动而产生的人，这一运动按照神意从某一开端向这一事物系列运动，孕育着某些将要存在的事物原则，决定着产生存在、变化和这样一种连续系列的力量。

There is no case known (neither is it, indeed, possible) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself; for so it would be prior to itself, which is impossible.

没有任何已知的事物自为动因的例子；否则，该事物必须先于自身而存在，而那是不可能的。

You can use "the" with a singular count noun when you want to make a general statement about all things of that type.

当所指的一件事物来代替同类事物的时候可用

33 Keep in mind, however, that it is one thing for causes to be essentially ordered in causing or as regards causation and quite another for the things which are causes to be essentially ordered, as is clear from Avicenna in the sixth book of the Metaphysics, chapter five.

2.33 但是，要牢记一点，正如阿维森纳在《形而上学》第六部第五章所言，一件事物由于诸因而在因果关系中或者被看成因果性而被本质性地归类，与一件事物作为原因而被本质性地归类完全是两回事。

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

玩世不恭者是知道一切事物的价格，却不知道任何事物价值的人。

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value is nothing.

玩世不恭者，知道一切事物的价格，却不知一件事物的价值

Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new

这个城市像她本人一样是个混合体，是佐治亚新与旧的混合体，在这种混合体里，一往无前、生气勃勃的新事物同旧事物发生冲突，旧的往往屈居下风。

Louis Philippe will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to the same degree as the feeling for what is useful.

路易－菲力浦将被列于他这一世纪中杰出人物之列，并且，假使他稍稍爱慕荣誉，假使他对伟大事物的感情能和他对实用事物的感情达到同样的高度，他还可以跻身于历史上赫赫有名的统治者之列。①卜利查（George Pritchard，1796？883），英国传教士，毁坏他在塔希提岛的财产是引起一八四三年英法冲突的导火线。

And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you.

47：5 法老对约瑟说，你父亲和你弟兄们到你这里来了。

Additionally, the approximate flattening of surface strip using lines linking midpoints on perpendicular lines between geodesic curves and the unconditional extreme value method are discussed.

提出了用测地线方程、曲面上两点间短程线来计算膜结构曲面测地线的方法，同时，采用测地线间垂线的中点连线和用无约束极值法进行空间条状曲面近似展开的分析。