术语“气化”的详细信息

英译术语:

transformations of material force

汉语语境:

《礼记》中有记载言，阴、阳之气互相转化或演化而生成宇宙间万事万物。这便是气化的过程。有些认可这一概念，如张载、程氏兄弟、王夫之、戴震等。但是程氏兄弟认为，只有在最开始，即每一事物的第一个成员的生成是通过转化，而其他阶段则是靠演化。

英语语境:

As is stated in The Book of Rites, the birth of everyting in the universe, te uniberse itself included, is the resulf of the evolution of and between the yin and yang forces. It is a process of transformation of material forces. Some scholars later accepted the theory, such as Zhang Zai, the Cheng brothers, Wang Fuzhi and Dai Zhen. But the Cheng brothers maintained that the theory applies only at the very beginning. That is to say, the first members of each speciest been produced through transformations of material forces and then the stage of evolutions of forms began.