mate- rial

• 材质

英英释义

名词 material:

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

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

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

4. things needed for doing or making something

5. a person judged suitable for admission or employment

形容词 material:

1. concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

2. derived from or composed of matter

3. directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

4. concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being- T.Roosevelt

5. having material or physical form or substance - Benjamin Jowett

6. having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary- Shakespeare