Some fungi provide food and shelter for wildlife, help plants absorb water and nutrients, and recycle waste and dead matter.

一些真菌为野生动物提供食物和庇护所，帮助植物吸收水分和营养，并回收废物和枯死物。

With dead matter, this is not the case.

对于死物质， 情况并非如此。

For things like dead plant matter, that works really great.

对于死去的植物物质之类的东西， 效果非常好。

One, the accumulation of the toxic chemical sulfide, created when bacteria decomposes dead plant matter.

第一，有毒化学硫化物的积累，当细菌分解死亡的植物物质时产生。

I am saying, of course, that there is no such thing as dead matter.

当然，我是说没有死物质这样的东西。

There is no cogent empirical reason for supposing that the laws determining the motions of living bodies are exactly the same as those that apply to dead matter.

没有令人信服的经验理由可以假设决定活体运动的定律与适用于死物质的定律完全相同。

We will again use this chair, this time to explain our point.The chair is being constantly constructed.Now the chair represents a subdivision in matter, being what you term dead matter, though we know that consciousness is everywhere.

我们再次用这把椅子，这一次是来解释我们的论点。椅子是一直不断地被建构的。现在，这张椅子代表了物质)中的一个分支，是你们所称为的死物质，但我们知道，意识无处不在。