The events were comparatively small, but the essential condition was there — namely, that they were in favor of his own ends.

这些事件相对较小， 但基本条件是存在的——即它们有利于他自己的目的。

And in order to do that, you’ll need to understand a few essential conditions that describe your physical place in the universe.

为了做到这一点，你需要了解一些描述你在宇宙中的物理位置的基本条件。

Well for me, as a sculptor, the acceptance of the material as a means of conveying the relationship between human-lived biological time and in a way the eons of geological time, is an essential condition of the waiting quality of sculpture.

身为雕塑家，我认为原料的材质反映了人类寿命的生物时间与永恒的地质时间之间的关系，是雕像能够长存的基本条件。