matter是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a situation or subject that is being dealt with or considered -- 事情，事件

  • Could I talk to you about a personal matter? 我能和你談件私事嗎？

  • Allen denied any knowledge of the matter. 艾倫否認對此事知情。

  • Please phone me back - it's a matter of some importance. 可否回電話給我——有比較重要的事。

  • Talking about the world's problems is one thing, but solving them is another matter altogether (= is completely different). 談論世界所面臨的問題是一回事，而將之解決卻完全是另一回事。

  • Her resignation is not going to help matters. 她的辭職無助於解決問題。

  • Three of our players were ill, and to make matters worse, our main scorer had broken his ankle. 我們的三名隊員病了，更糟的是，主要得分手摔斷了腳踝。

  • Baking a cake isn't difficult - it's just a matter of following the recipe. 烤蛋糕並不難——只需照著食譜做就行。

  • Being arrested by the police is no laughing matter. 被警方逮捕可不是鬧著玩的。

• 1 the reason for pain, worry, or a problem -- 麻煩事，問題；毛病

  • What's the matter? Why are you crying? 怎麼了？你為甚麼哭？

  • What's the matter with your hand? It's bleeding. 你的手怎麼了？都流血了。

  • Is anything the matter? 有甚麼麻煩嗎？

  • I don't know what the matter is with the car, but it won't start. 我不知道汽車出了甚麼毛病，就是發動不起來。

• 2 physical substance in the universe -- 物質

  • Some scientists believe that there is about ten times as much matter in the universe as astronomers have observed. 有些科學家認為，宇宙中的物質約是天文學家所觀測到的物質的十倍。

  • Most vegetable matter is compostable. 絕大部分蔬菜都可以用作堆肥。

  • There's no waste matter left over. 沒有任何浪費的東西剩下。

• 3 a substance or things of a particular type -- （某一類）物品

  • advertising/printed matter 廣告材料／印刷品

  • Do you find the subject matter of the book (= the subject that the book deals with) interesting? 你覺得這本書的題材有趣嗎？

• 4 used in expressions describing how small an amount or period of time is -- （表示數量或時間之少）大約，左右

  • The interview was over in a matter of minutes. 採訪約幾分鐘就結束了。

  • She complained he had short-changed her, but it was only a matter of a few pence. 她抱怨說他少找了錢，其實只差了幾便士而已。

• 5 to be important, or to affect what happens -- 要緊，重要，有關係

  • We were late but it didn't seem to matter. 我們遲到了，不過看來不要緊。

  • "What did you say?" "Oh, it doesn't matter." 「你說甚麼？」「哦，沒甚麼要緊的。」

  • [ + question word ] It doesn't matter what you wear - just as long as you come. 只要你來，穿甚麼都沒關係。

  • [ + that ] It didn't matter that our best player was injured after ten minutes - we still won. 我們最好的球員比賽開始後10分鐘就受傷了——但這無礙大局，我們還是贏了。

  • I know Charles doesn't think this project is important, but it matters to me. 我知道查爾斯並不看重這個專案計劃，但這對我來說很重要。