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。
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I shall see and hear new things, get new ideas, and even if I haven't much time there, I shall bring home quantities of material for my rubbish.'
-- Eager to find material for stories, and bent on making them original in plot, if not masterly in ex-ecution, she searched newspapers for accidents, incidents, and crimes.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Captain Peleg, many years her chief-mate, before he commanded another vessel of his own, and now a retired seaman, and one of the principal owners of the Pequod, this old Peleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched by anything except it be Thorkill-Hake's carved buckler or bedstead.
-- Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though not so durable as hemp, it is stronger, and far more soft and elastic; and I will add (since there is an 脙娄sthetics in all things), is much more handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp.
-- I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-coloured membrane, like the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case.
-- As they narrated to each other their unholy adventures, their tales of terror told in words of mirth; as their uncivilized laughter forked upwards out of them, like the flames from the furnace; as to and fro, in their front, the harpooneers wildly gesticulated with their huge pronged forks and dippers; as the wind howled on, and the sea leaped, and the ship groaned and dived, and yet steadfastly shot her red hell further and further into the blackness of the sea and the night, and scornfully champed the white bone in her mouth, and viciously spat round her on all sides; then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander's soul.
-- For even so it is in all material factories.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Oliver!He little thought, as he lay sleeping in happy unconsciousness of all around him, that the board had that very day arrived at a decision which would exercise the most material influence over all his future fortunes.
-- And now, I come to a very important passage in Oliver's history; for I have to record an act, slight and unimportant perhaps in appearance, but which indirectly produced a material change in all his future prospects and proceedings.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should NOW escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; sensible that if such an idea had been suggested, his behaviour during the last day must have material weight in confirming or crushing it.
-- 'My dear sir,' replied Mr. Collins,' I am particularly obliged to you for this friendly caution, and you may de-pend upon my not taking so material a step without her ladyship's concurrence.'
-- Mr. Wickham's society was of material service in dis-pelling the gloom which the late perverse occurrences had thrown on many of the Longbourn family.
-- Elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all, but she could see it and write of it without material pain.
-- When she thought of her mother, her confidence gave way a little; but she would not allow that any objections THERE had material weight with Mr. Darcy, whose pride, she was convinced, would re-ceive a deeper wound from the want of importance in his friend's connections, than from their want of sense; and she was quite decided, at last, that he had been partly governed by this worst kind of pride, and partly by the wish of retain-ing Mr. Bingley for his sister.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "That is a material consideration undoubtedly.
-- It was very early in September; the season was fine, and from first seeing the place under the advantage of good weather, they received an impression in its favour which was of material service in recommending it to their lasting approbation.
-- Elinor's thanks followed this speech with grateful earnestness; attended too with the assurance of her expecting material advantage to Marianne, from the communication of what had passed.
-- Why they WERE different, Robert exclaimed to her himself in the course of a quarter of an hour's conversation; for, talking of his brother, and lamenting the extreme GAUCHERIE which he really believed kept him from mixing in proper society, he candidly and generously attributed it much less to any natural deficiency, than to the misfortune of a private education; while he himself, though probably without any particular, any material superiority by nature, merely from the advantage of a public school, was as well fitted to mix in the world as any other man.
-- Mrs. Dashwood seemed actually working for her, herself; cherishing all her hopes, and promoting all her views!Such an opportunity of being with Edward and his family was, above all things, the most material to her interest, and such an invitation the most gratifying to her feelings!It was an advantage that could not be too gratefully acknowledged, nor too speedily made use of; and the visit to Lady Middleton, which had not before had any precise limits, was instantly discovered to have been always meant to end in two days' time.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And yet she was interested in her charms, quick to understand the keener pleasures of life, ambitious to gain in material things.
-- She realised that hers was not to be a round of pleasure, and yet there was something promising in all the material prospect he set forth.
-- Under better material conditions, this kind of work would not have been so bad, but the new socialism which involves pleasant working conditions for employees had not then taken hold upon manufacturing companies.
-- In a material way, she was considerably improved.
-- She had practised her make-up in the morning, had rehearsed and arranged her material for the evening by one o'clock, and had gone home to have a final look at her part, waiting for the evening to come.
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