material

• adj. 重要的；物质的，实质性的；肉体的
• n. 材料，原料；物资；布料

来自拉丁语materia,物质，材料，木料，木材，词源同matter.

1. the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;

"coal is a hard black material"

"wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"

2. information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form;

"the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography"

3. things needed for doing or making something;

"writing materials"

"useful teaching materials"

4. artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;

"the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"

"woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"

"she measured off enough material for a dress"

5. a person judged suitable for admission or employment;

"he was university material"

"she was vice-presidential material"

material

material: [14] Etymologically, material is simply a derivative of matter. It comes via Old French materiel from late Latin māteriālis, a derivative of Latin māteria ‘matter’ (source of English matter). The modern French form of the word was reborrowed as materiel ‘military equipment’ [19].
=> material, matter

material (adj.)

mid-14c., "real, ordinary; earthly, drawn from the material world;" a term in scholastic philosophy and theology, from Old French material, materiel (14c.) and directly from Late Latin materialis (adj.) "of or belonging to matter," from Latin materia "matter, stuff, wood, timber" (see matter). From late 14c. as "made of matter, having material existence; material, physical, substantial;" from late 15c. as "important, relevant."

material (n.)

late 14c., "substance, matter from which a thing is made," from material (adj.).

material, matter, substance, stuff

这些名词均含"物质，东西"之意。

material： 通常指组成客观存在物的部分或其原料。

matter： 通常指构成实物的物质，与精神相对立。在科学上，指占有空间，并能以某种方式被感官觉察的一切东西。

substance： 多指某一种形式的物质，既可指元素也可指化合物。

stuff： 多用于日常生活中，非正式用词。常指构成整体的所有部分、物体或项目。有时指劣等材料，含轻蔑意味。

They love to share their ideas and materials and help others find markets for their work.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

New materials became available by that time.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

He did experiments to different materials.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

As I was suffering through my week of anxiety, overthinking the material and guessing my grasp of it, I did some of my own polling among students and professors.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

Correct! A hundred percent of our raw material comes from Romania.

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

If you understand the material and have the ability to articulate your thoughts, they should be a breeze.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

In fact, the slugs use the genetic material so well that they pass it on to their future generations.

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

It can be hard to identify which parcels are carrying crucial items such as Social Security checks, but USPS and UPS try their best to prioritize sensitive material.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

They also, however, use far more natural resources—fuel, water ( ' , all those baths and golf courses) and building materials.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Rather, it's better to let the learners wrestle (较劲）with the material on their own for a while, refraining from giving them any assistance at the start

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Nearly all application materials are submitted online, and the Common Application provides a one-size-fits form accepted by more than 400 schools, including the nation's most selective.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Producers of agricultural goods and raw materials.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

The very process imposed a limitation on the quantity of materials copied.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Replace the shirt with one of some other material.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Another team at Nagoya University in Japan has tested calcium compound as an energy storage material.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

So now, the main challenge was to find the right material for printing clothes with, I mean the material you feed the printer with.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Surfing the Internet during class doesn't just steal focus from the educator; it also hurts students who're already struggling to grasp the material.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读

The breakthrough came when I was introduced to Fila Flex, which is a new kind of printing material.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Unfortunately, pieces of science journalism can also oversimplify and generalize their subject material to the point that the basic information conveyed is obscured or at worst, obviously wrong.

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Animals are built of many different materials----skin, fat, and more----and light moves through each at a different speed.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

At the university of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

But some materials slow and scatter (散射) light, bouncing it away from its original path.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Creating products out of raw materials creates much more waste material, up to 100 times more, than the material contained in the finished products.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Every time light moves into a material with a new speed, it bends and scatters.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Experimenting with materials to create something new can go a long way in helping them develop their creativity.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

On February 19, a committee of teachers will evaluate materials and give opinions.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Food materials have to be dry.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Ground water evaporates and collects on the sheet until small drops of water form, run down the material and fall off into the cup.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

He buys cooking materials for her.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

He provided him with painting materials.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

If you are arriving from overseas, bring no food, animal or plant material into the country.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

It needs to be constructed from materials that will stand the heat of the lamp and regular adjustments by the user.

2016年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文

It uses renewable materials as sources of food.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Learning materials are provided to students throughout their course, and there will never be more than 15 participants in each class.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Living materials can stop light because they contain pigments that absorb specific colors of light.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a partly written book.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

Others build a large, clear mass of non-living jelly-lie material and spread themselves over it.

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Second, if other factors such as technology remain constant, economic growth and material expectations will fall well below recent standards and this could invite trouble.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

So hoof on over to an office hour and have some one-on-one face time with someone who'll help you master the material and improve your grade, to boot.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

That they could get material benefits from her never entered their minds.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The government has already permitted the company to use special materials to make it easier for the vehicle to fly.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

There are energy savings to be made from all recyclable materials, sometimes huge savings.

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

There is a lot more material available, which means you may be overwhelmed with the amount of information.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 短文填空 原文

To decrease the amount of rubbish and to protect the environment, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

We can give kids chances to think about materials in new ways.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 选项

You can keep all the nutrition in raw materials.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

出自-2013年考研翻译原文

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.

出自-2015年考研翻译原文

Such background material inevitably reflects who we are.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Even better would be to help elevate notions of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods—paintings, sculpture and architecture—and superfluous experiences—music, literature, religion and philosophy.

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The strategy also aims to ensure that carbon in woody material removed from the forests is locked away in the form of solid lumber or burned as biofuel in vehicles that would otherwise run on fossil fuels.

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

a piece of material

一块布料

牛津词典

‘What material is this dress made of? ’ ‘Cotton. ’

“这件连衣裙是用什么料子做的？”“棉布。”

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building materials (= bricks, sand, glass, etc.)

建筑材料

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teaching materials

教材

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The company produces its own training material.

公司自行编写培训教材。

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(figurative)The teacher saw her as good university material (= good enough to go to university).

老师认为她是块上大学的料。

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She's collecting material for her latest novel.

她在为其最新的小说收集素材。

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The band played all new material at the gig.

在爵士音乐会上，乐队演奏的都是新曲目。

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material comforts

物质享受

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changes in your material circumstances

物质环境的改变

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the material world

物质世界

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material evidence

重要的证据

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She omitted information that was material to the case.

她遗漏了重要的论据。

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Materially they are no better off.

他们的物质生活并没有改善。

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Their comments have not materially affected our plans (= in a noticeable or important way) .

他们的评价并没有对我们的计划产生多么重要的影响。

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...electrons in a conducting material such as a metal.

金属等导电材料中的电子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the design of new absorbent materials.

新型高吸水性材料的设计

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...the thick material of her skirt...

她的裙子的厚布料

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The materials are soft and comfortable to wear.

这些布料质地柔软，穿着很舒服。

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The builders ran out of materials.

建筑商耗尽了材料。

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...sewing materials.

缝纫材料

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In my version of the story, I added some new material.

我在讲述这个故事时加入了新的素材。

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...the film producer's debt to the author of original screen material.

影片的制片人受到了创作影片原始素材的作者的启发

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Every room must have been stuffed with material things.

每个房间肯定都塞满了东西。

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...the material world.

物质世界

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She was not university material...

她不是上大学的料。

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His message has changed little since he became presidential material.

成为总统候选人后，他的宣言并没有多少变化。

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The nature and availability of material evidence was not to be discussed...

实质性证据的性质和可用性毋庸讨论。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They contend that the company failed to disclose material information.

他们坚持认为该公司并未透露实质性的信息。

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