1.【哲】活力论,生机说[论]
1.a doctrine that maintains that life and the functions of a living organism depend on a nonmaterial force or principle separate from physical and chemical processes.
1.My description of the aggressive character of life is not meant to be a postmodern vitalism.
我对生命侵略特性的描述并不意味要将它当变为后现代的活力论。
2.The position which vitalism held was not very far from the meaning in the everyday phrase, "She lost her life. "
活力论与平常的“她失去了生命”这句话意义相差并不远。
3.True, no biologist has really believed in vitalism for more than a century.
事实上经历了一个世纪后没有任何生物学家还相信这一论调。
4.Vitalism, like every wrong idea, contains a useful sliver of truth.
活力论,正如历史上每一个错误的观念,也包含了有用的真理片段。