material是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 材料， 原料， 资料a. 物质的， 肉体的， 实质性的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But may not mind!I ask for information, as a plodding man of business who only deals with such material objects as guineas, shillings, and bank-notes may not the reten-tion of the thing involve the retention of the idea?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They boldly talk of spiritual force, and then try to subject it to material experiment."
-- Possibly you are right too, that action founded on material interest would be more desirable.
-- The impulsive abruptness of her movements was such that at every step the lines of her knees and the upper part of her legs were distinctly marked under her dress, and the question involuntarily rose to the mind where in the undulating, piled-up mountain of material at the back the real body of the woman, so small and slender, so naked in front, and so hidden behind and below, really came to an end.
-- "But you said yourself the people are at such a low stage of material development: what help are schools for that?"
-- "In what way are schools going to help the people to improve their material position?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The presence of Aouda on the Rangoon, in company with Phileas Fogg, gave him new material for reflection.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Dr. Brumfit rattled: "I'm sufficiently liberal, I should assume, toward the claims of science, but with a man like Gottlieb--I'm prepared to believe that he knows all about material forces, but what astounds me is that such a man can be blind to the vital force that creates all others.
-- We'll give you all the space and technicians and material you need, and you just go ahead and ignore us, and work out whatever seems important to you.
-- You would, of course, have absolute freedom as to what researches you thought it best to pursue, and I think we could provide as good assistance and material as would be obtainable anywhere in the world.
-- The clinic did, perhaps, give over-many roentgenological examinations to socially dislocated women who needed children and floor-scrubbing more than pretty little skiagraphs; they did, perhaps, view all tonsils with too sanguinary a gloom; but certainly no factory could have been better equipped or more gratifyingly expensive, and none could have routed its raw human material through so many processes so swiftly.
-- The Institute deftly provided all the material and facilities he could desire--animals, incubators, glassware, cultures, media--and he had a thoroughly trained technician--"garcon" they called him at the Institute.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He folded this strip in two, took off his wide, strong summer overcoat of some stout cotton material (his only outer garment) and began sewing the two ends of the rag on the inside, under the left armhole.
-- He had come gradually to many different and curious conclusions, and in his opinion the chief reason lay not so much in the material impossi-bility of concealing the crime, as in the criminal himself.
-- We may add only that the practical, purely material difficulties of the affair occupied a secondary posi-tion in his mind.
-- According to his observations the patient's illness was due partly to his unfortunate material surroundings during the last few months, but it had partly also a moral origin, 'was, so to speak, the product of sever-al material and moral influences, anxieties, apprehensions, troubles, certain ideas 芒聙娄 and so on.'
-- A special little theory came in too a theory of a sort dividing mankind, you see, into material and su-perior persons, that is persons to whom the law does not apply owing to their superiority, who make laws for the rest of mankind, the material, that is.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was nothingworth mentioning in the material world, but Dora Spenlow, to beastonished about.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You might not give Emma such a com-plete education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid; and if Weston had asked me to recommend him a wife, I should certainly have named Miss Taylor.'
-- I have been always tell-ing you, my love, that I had no idea of the change being so very material to Hartfield as you apprehended; and now you have Emma's account, I hope you will be satisfied.'
-- 'A material difference then,' she replied 'and no doubt you were much my superior in judgment at that period of our lives; but does not the lapse of one-and-twenty years bring our understandings a good deal nearer?'
-- Not one of them had the pow-174 Emmaer of removal, or of effecting any material change of society.
-- A real injury to the children a most mortifying change, and material loss to them all; a very great deduc-tion from her father's daily comfort and, as to herself, she could not at all endure the idea of Jane Fairfax at Donwell Abbey.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Material causes and emotional effects are not to be arranged in regular equation.
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