material
n. 材料, 物资, 素材, 布料, 资料 a. 物质的, 肉体的, 重要的
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教材释义与例句
材料，原料；物资；布料
cloth used for making clothes, curtains etc
重要的；物质的，实质性的；肉体的
relating to the real world and physical objects, rather than religious or spiritual things
释义与例句
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A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
物质
材料
可数 不可数Asphalt, composed of oil and sand, is a widely used material for roads.
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A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
可数 不可数boy/girlfriend material
marriage material
We have lots of presidential material in various public offices.
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Apparatus for doing or making something.
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Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
可数 不可数teaching materials
We were a warm-up act at the time; we didn't have enough original material to headline.
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Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth).
布
面料
可数 不可数a piece of material
You'll need about a yard of material to make this.
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The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
可数 不可数The solid materials of the mixture will settle to the bottom of the container.
The material of his character was basically good.
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An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
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All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
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The ingredients for making whisky punch.
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The materiel of an army.
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Things that are material.
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To form from matter; to materialize.
废旧 及物
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Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
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Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
material needs
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Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
数学 哲学material cause
the material aspect of being
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Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
法律found a material difference between two things
You've made several material contributions to this project.
This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
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Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
the material world
interested only in material progress
Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
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Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
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In an important degree.
废旧
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From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.
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