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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
无论生命究竟是什么，对我们来说，它都是一个抽象的概念，因为这个词是一个泛化的名词，用来表示一切动物和植物所共有的、在无机世界里并没有直接作用的东西。