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1·Only a god can equal inanimate matter in this respect.

在这方面只有神能够比得上没有生命的物质。

2·When it does so, it will abolish, once and for all, a distinction as old as human thought: that between animate and inanimate matter.

这样的事情一旦发生就将永远废弃那条洪荒尤如人类思维一样古老的禁则：它们是介于生命与非生命之间的东西。

3·After thousands of years of adapting inanimate matter to create useful things we are now modifying living material to make commercial goods.

千万年来，人们将无生命的东西制成有用之物：而现在，我们将有生命的东西转化为商品。

4·Chemistry provides the bridge between the molecules of inanimate matter and the highly complex molecular architectures and systems which make up living organisms.

化学便在非生命物质的分子和组成活体组织的高度复杂的分子结构系统间架起一座桥梁。