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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had to get a hammer before this could be done, though, for the stony material had acquired the hardness of granite.
-- He set to work immediately to prepare the night's encampment beneath the shelter of the sand-hills; the last provisions supplied the last meal, and afterward, each, following the Major's example, scooped out a hole in the sand, which made a comfortable enough bed, and then covered himself with the soft material up to his chin, and fell into a heavy sleep.
-- At the outset it is quite possible that material wants and the very necessities of existence may engross the poor shipwrecked fellow, just snatched from the waves; but afterward, when he feels himself alone, far from his fellow men, without any hope of seeing country and friends again, what must he think, what must he suffer?
-- The nardou, which grew abundantly in dried up creeks, supplied us with tolerably substantial bread, and we had no longer any fears for our material life.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The original hound was material enough to tug a man's throat out, and yet he was diabolical as well.'
-- It is the scientific use of the imagination, but we have always some material basis on which to start our speculation.
-- A spectral hound which leaves material footmarks and fills the air with its howling is sure-ly not to be thought of.
-- 'The recital of these events must be very painful to you, and perhaps it will make it easier if I tell you what occurred, and you can check me if I make any material mistake.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without recourse to any moral principle, having for your foundation only individual selfishness, and the satisfaction of material desires?
-- Is there not material for the future in all this for hope?
-- And, if so, surely there is good material in you?
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have gone on, not heeding anything but the question I was pursuing; and the material has dripped into the huts yonder.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Notwithstanding the Hu-rons were necessarily ignorant of the little channels among the eddies and rapids of the stream, they knew the common signs of such a navigation too well to commit any material blunder.
-- Their dis-tant villages, their hunting-grounds and hundreds of their women and children, together with a material part of their physical force, were actually within the limits of the French territory.
-- It was in no degree remarkable that there should be found two who were will-ing to claim so great an honor, for impostors, though rare, were not unknown among the natives; but it was altogether material to the just and severe intentions of the Delawares, that there should be no mistake in the matter.
-- After this material point was so satisfactorily decided, he despatched an Indian boy in quest of 'killdeer' and the rifle of Uncas, to the place where they had deposited their weapons on approaching the camp of the Delawares; a measure of double policy, inasmuch as it protected the arms from their own fate, if detained as pris-oners, and gave them the advantage of appearing among the strangers rather as sufferers than as men provided with means of defense and subsistence.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this way matters went on for some time, without pro-ducing any material effect on the relative situations of the contending powers.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His life was strangely divorced from material things, and it was as though his body at times wreaked a fearful revenge on his spirit.
-- She is occupied with material things, and she is jealous of the ideal.
-- I fancy that Strickland saw vaguely some spiritual meaning in material things that was so strange that he could only suggest it with halting symbols.
-- He must have acquired experiences which would form abundant material for a picaresque novel of modern Paris, but he remained aloof, and judging from his conversation there was nothing in those years that had made a particular impression on him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This inflammable material was placed in the central chamber at the bottom of a little cavity in the rock, sheltered from all wind and damp.
-- The chief material was clay, to which Harding added a little lime and quartz.
-- There was no want of wood, cut up into planks, in the storeroom, and little by little they completed their furnishing; constructing the most solid of tables and chairs, for material was not spared.
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