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We often have questions about the material and spiritual worlds . It is the exploration and research of these inklings that drives people to think creatively .

我们常常对物质和精神世界产生疑问，对这种疑问的探索和研究是促使人们创造性思考的动力。

Inklings sans ink / cling to the dry / point of the pen / whose stem I mouth / not knowing when / the truth will out

无墨之迹/附在干枯的/笔尖/我透露了谁的故事/不知何时/真相大白

Its characters are talking animals that think and act enough like us to emerge as personalities , while persisting sufficiently in their natural wild ways to impart inklings of natural history .

书中的角色是会说话的动物，它们的思想和行为都像人，但又保持了它们作为动物的自然野性。

One of the first inklings that chemistry has an underlying pattern was the discovery , early in the 19th century , of lithium , sodium and potassium-known collectively as the alkali metals .

化学有一套内在规律；对此最早的模糊暗示之一是19世纪初锂、钠与钾（统称碱金属）的发现。