material是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a physical substance that things can be made from -- 材料，原料

  • building materials, such as stone 建築材料，如石頭

  • Crude oil is used as the raw (= basic) material for making plastics. 原油是製造塑膠的原料。

• 1 information used when writing something such as a book, or information produced in various forms to help people or to advertise products -- 素材；資料

  • I'm in the process of collecting material for an article that I'm writing. 我正在為所寫的一篇文章搜集資料。

• 2 cloth that can be used to make things such as clothes -- 布，織物，布料

  • How much material will you need to make the skirt? 做這條裙子你需要多少布料？

• 3 equipment that you need for a particular activity -- 用具，設備

  • "Do we need any writing materials?" "Only a pen and a pencil." 「我們需要甚麼文具嗎？」「只要一枝鋼筆和一枝鉛筆就行。」

  • teaching materials 教具

• 4 relating to physical objects or money rather than emotions or the spiritual world -- 物質的；實體的

  • the material world 物質世界

  • Material wealth never interested her. 物質財富從未引起過她的興趣。

• 5 important or having an important effect -- 重要的，重大的；實質性的

  • If you have any information that is material to the investigation, you should state it now. 如果你有與這次調查有關的任何重要線索，現在就應該說出來。