In this image, one artist used colour to illustrate nothing less than the metaphysics of the universe.

在这幅画中 一位艺术家用颜色诠释了宇宙的形而上学。

And it had no truck with metaphysics of any kind.

它没有任何形式的形而上学。

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you.

但是，我不打算和你讨论政治、社会学或形而上学。

This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me.

这是一个形而上学的例子， 至少乔和我一样难以对付。

But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.

但乔把这个案子完全从形而上学的区域中取出来，通过这个方法战胜了它。

It reads as if Iris Murdoch had set a novel during an especially muddy phase of German metaphysics.

读起来好像艾丽丝·默多克 (Iris Murdoch) 在德国形而上学的一个特别混乱的阶段创作了一部小说。

Yes, I asked you: Which word means a belief that physical possessions are the most important thing in life? Is it a) metaphysics, b) materialism or c) existentialism?

是的，我的问题是：以下哪个单词的意思是相信物质财富是生活中最重要的东西？是a) metaphysics? （形而上学） b) materialism（唯物主义）? 还是c) existentialism（存在主义）?

Rather a nice point of metaphysics: Which is the more desirable condition, to be printed and not be worth it, or to be worth it and not be printed?

而是形而上学的一个很好的观点：哪个是更可取的条件，被印刷但不值得，还是值得而不被印刷？

To him, the discussion of metaphysics was limited by technical philosophical language, one that, as he later admitted, he was not able to transcend in Being and Time despite his already highly poetic style of writing.

对他来说，关于形而上学的讨论受到专业哲学语言的限制，正如他后来承认的那样，尽管他的写作风格已经非常诗意，但他无法在《存在与时间》中超越这一点。

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

乔一点也不懂哲学或玄学之类的东西，但一阵好奇的激动，一半是令人愉快的，一半是叫人痛苦的，在她倾听时向她袭来，她感觉像是被卷到了时间与空间之中，就像是假日里放飞的一只新的气球。