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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He mounted the third pile of wealth and began operating, adopting the plan of sloping the upper sheaves one over the other; and, in addition, filling the interstices with the material of some untied sheaves.
-- The girl had made for herself a material aid.
-- Boldwood's eyes dwelt upon its many sparkles a long time, though that its material aspect concerned him little was plain from his manner and mien, which were those of a mind following out the presumed thread of that jewel's future history.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had heard of some discoveries having been made by an English philoso-pher, the knowledge of which was material to my success, and I sometimes thought of obtaining my father's consent to visit England for this purpose; but I clung to every pre-tence of delay and shrank from taking the first step in an undertaking whose immediate necessity began to appear less absolute to me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards ofbillowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recentlybrought her from Atlanta.
-- His coat and trousers were actually of the same material and they fitted him,instead of hanging in folds or being almost too tight for movement.
-- Resolutely she took it by the hem and jerked,put it in her mouth and gnawed, until finally the material gave with a rip and tore the length.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were some marks in it that might have been dimples, if the material had been softer and the instrument finer, but which, as it was, were only dints.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although their intention was to pre-serve such material as part of German cultural and literary history, and their collection was first published with schol-arly notes and no illustration, the tales soon came into the possession of young readers.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several pas-sages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
-- But the whole scene of this voyage made so strong an impression on my mind, and is so deeply fixed in my memory, that, in committing it to paper I did not omit one material circumstance: however, upon a strict review, I blotted out several passages.
-- he reader may please to observe, that the following Textract of many conversations I had with my master, contains a summary of the most material points which were discoursed at several times for above two years; his hon-our often desiring fuller satisfaction, as I farther improved in the Houyhnhnm tongue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.
-- There is no mystery in it; there is an unfathomable mystery in the meanest of them, for ever. Supposing we were to reverse our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities by other means!
-- THE GREAT MANUFACTURERTime went on in Coketown like its own machinery: so much material wrought up, so much fuel consumed, so many powers worn out, so much money made.
-- Where was the great difference between the two schools, when each chained her down to material realities, and inspired her with no faith in anything else?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Biscuit and dried meat, washed down by some mouthfuls of water flavored with Schiedam, was the material of our luxurious meal.
-- The orifice, which was almost circular, presented a diameter of about five feet; the somber tunnel was cut in the living rock, and coated on the inside by the different material which had once passed through it in a state of fusion.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My dear man, it allows the material premiss; so does the pure mind...exclusively.'
-- Frayed!It was as if the very material you were made of was cheap stuff, and was fraying out to nothing.
-- She heard him with his pit managers, with the members of his Board, with young scientists, and she was amazed at his shrewd insight into things, his power, his un-canny material power over what is called practical men.
-- So, like a demure arcadian field-marshal, Hilda arranged the material part of the journey.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there is material there perhaps, indeed, a little too much.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Meg felt, without understanding why, that they were not particularly cultivated or intelligent peo-ple, and that all their gilding could not quite conceal the ordinary material of which they were made.
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