Astronomers think it's a failed dwarf galaxy that lacked the requisite mass to produce stars.

天文家们认为它是缺乏必要物而不能产生新星的已经衰败的矮星星系。

What happened to God, the disappearance of God, is a function of this misinterpretation of God as a being.

上帝的消失，是将上帝误解为一个物的功能。

Particular intelligent beings may have laws of their own making, but they have some likewise which they never made.

特殊的 " 智能物 " 能够拥有自己制定的法律，然而也有一些并非是他们创造的，却被他们所拥有。

So would it be fair to say that one of your long-term interests has been the concept of veneration and memorialization of beings?

因此，是否可以说，长期以来的兴趣之一就是对物的崇拜和纪念的概念？

There is, then, a prime reason; and laws are the relations subsisting between it and different beings, and the relations of these to one another.

于是便有一个最浅显的理性的。法就是这个浅显理性与各种物之间关系的总和，同时也体现着所有客观物彼此之间的关系。

Before there were intelligent beings, they were possible; they had therefore possible relations, and consequently possible laws. Before laws were made, there were relations of possible justice.

" 智能物 " 产生之前，它们已有的可能性；于是它们便有的关系，所以也就有可能的法律。法律制定之前，已有产生公共关系的可能性。

I would be, again, having a normal dream, and then I would see several of these presences in the periphery of wherever the location of my dream was.

我原本正做正常的梦，然后我看到好几个这种物出现我梦中场景边缘的视野里。

In affirming that God is not a being, l've certainly held off idolatry, but have l left us thereby in an intellectual lurch doomed simply to remain silent about God?

确认天主不是一个物时，我当然会克服偶像崇拜，但这样是否会把大家引入一种必然的思维困境、使我们仅能对天主保持沉默呢？

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws. As an intelligent being, he incessantly transgresses the laws established by God, and changes those of his own instituting.

人，从 " 物质 " 的意义上而言，与其他物体别无二致，人受到永恒规律的支配。当人作为 " 智能物 " 的时候，便时常诋毁上帝创造的规律，并且更改自己制定的法律。

This is because, on the one hand, particular intelligent beings are of a finite nature, and consequently liable to error; and on the other, their nature requires them to be free agents.

原因是某些特殊的 " 智能物 " 囿于其本性而导致错误；而且，从另一个方面来说，他们按自己的本性我行我素。

Ratzinger begins with the observation that finite being as we experience it is marked through and through by intelligibility, by a formal structure that makes it capable of being known by an inquiring mind.

有限的物可以通过理解力、通过一种能为求索者所掌握的形式结构，而被我们彻底地经验到。

You know, each time the universe, you know, generates a new structure or like an object that exists, generates a new structure along this causal chain, it's generating something that exists that never existed before.

你知道，每当宇宙，嗯，产生一个新的结构，或者像一个的物体，沿着这条因果链生成一个新的结构时，它就创造一些以前从未过的物。