corporeal
corporeal 英 [kɔ:ˈpɔ:riəl] 美 [kɔrˈpɔriəl]
adj. 物质的，有形的；肉体的
- Use the adjective corporeal to describe something that has to do with the body, like when your teacher catches you daydreaming and says you need to bring your mental sharpness, not just your corporeal presence to the classroom.
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- adj. 物质的，有形的；肉体的
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1. The picture forms a link, primitive but palpable, between corporeal and evanescent, between the body and the spirit.
这样的照片在有形和虚无之间，在肉体和精神之间形成了关联，这种联系虽原始但却可以感知。
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2. Descartes insisted – as part of his proof of the ‘cogito’ – that the mind must be utterly distinct from corporeal things.
笛卡尔认为——在对“我思”的证明中——心灵与有形的物体必然是决然不同的。
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3. While the Cruze ad was schmaltzy, it got me thinking about how big a role technology now plays even in this, um, corporeal aspect of our lives.
克鲁兹的这个广告虽然有点让人伤感，不过它让我开始思考，科技在我们生活的有形方面扮演了多大的角色。
- corporeal (adj.) 1610s, "of a material or physical nature, not mental or spiritual," with adjectival suffix -al (1) + Latin corporeus "of the nature of a body," from corpus "body" (living or dead), from PIE *kwrpes, from root *kwrep- "body, form, appearance." Meaning "relating to a material body or physical thing" is from 1660s. Related: Corporeality, corporeally.
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