The activities corresponding to the three effects mentioned are necessarily three — one to each — namely, Genesis, Growth, and Nutrition. Genesis, however, is not a simple activity of Nature, but is compounded of alteration1 and of shaping. That is to say, in order that bone, nerve, veins2, and all other [tissues] may come into existence, the underlying3 substance from which the animal springs must be altered; and in order that the substance so altered may acquire its appropriate shape and position, its cavities, outgrowths, attachments4, and so forth5, it has to undergo a shaping or formative process. One would be justified6 in calling this substance which undergoes alteration the material of the animal, just as wood is the material of a ship, and wax of an image.
Growth is an increase and expansion in length, breadth, and thickness of the solid parts of the animal (those which have been subjected to the moulding or shaping process). Nutrition is an addition to these, without expansion.
点击收听单词发音
1 alteration | |
n.变更,改变;蚀变 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
2 veins | |
n.纹理;矿脉( vein的名词复数 );静脉;叶脉;纹理 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
3 underlying | |
adj.在下面的,含蓄的,潜在的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
4 attachments | |
n.(用电子邮件发送的)附件( attachment的名词复数 );附着;连接;附属物 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
5 forth | |
adv.向前;向外,往外 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
6 justified | |
a.正当的,有理的 | |
参考例句: |
|
|
欢迎访问英文小说网 |