Plato, to define place, calls it that thing which in its own bosom1 receives forms and ideas; by which metaphor2 he denotes matter, being (as it were) a nurse or receptacle of beings. Aristotle, that it is the ultimate superficies of the circumambient body, contiguous to that which it doth encompass3.

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bosom
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n.胸,胸部;胸怀;内心;adj.亲密的 | |
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metaphor
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n.隐喻,暗喻 | |
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encompass
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vt.围绕,包围;包含,包括;完成 | |
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