The night deepened . The trees environing the old chateau , keeping its solitary state apart , moved in a rising wind , as though they threatened the pile of building massive and dark in the gloom .
An inanimate being is , of course , continuous with its surroundings ; but the environing circumstances do not , save metaphorically , constitute an environment .
当然,无生物是和它的周围事物连接在一起的;但是,除非用比喻的说法,周围的情况并不构成环境。
Similarly we also at a further step speak of a man ' resolving ' to do something , meaning that the agent steps forward out of his self ? 1 Regarding inwardness and enters into dealings with the environing objectivity .