It derived its materials from earlier philosophers, particularly the Schoolmen.

这种形而上学的材料是从古代哲学家、特别经院哲学家那里得来的。

Mind is essentially active in the same sense as the Schoolmen [Scholastics] said that God is 'absolute actuosity'.

精神是主动的，这里所谓主动的意义与经院哲学家曾经说上帝是绝对的主动性的意义是相同的。

It has indeed been spun out to greater length, especially by the labors of the medieval Schoolmen who, without making any material additions, merely refined in details.

中世纪经院哲学家对此虽有些推衍，却只是对原有材料的更加发挥，并没有增加什么新材料。

The things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of mediaeval schoolmen over metaphysical terms that nobody had ever understood.

这些一度充斥他生活的事情，现在看来就像保育院里孩子们滑稽的表演，或者像中世纪的学究们为了谁也不懂的形而上学术语喋喋不休的争论。