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n. 材料，原料，资料30 次
Because flammable material couldn’t build up on the landscape, blazes tended to move slowly and peter out when they reached the footprints of previous burns.
由于易燃物无法在地面上大量堆积，火势往往蔓延缓慢，并在到达以往过火区域时逐渐熄灭。
“Where’s the planting material going to come from?
“种植材料从哪里来？
ACE says it’s helped shrink the number of illegal streaming services in North America to 126, from more than 1,400 in 2018, aided in part by the MPA’s support for a 2020 federal law that made large-scale streaming of copyright material a serious crime.
ACE表示，它已帮助将北美的非法流媒体服务数量从2018年的1400多个减少到126个，这在一定程度上得益于美国电影协会对2020年一项联邦法律的支持，该法律将大规模流播受版权保护的内容定为重罪。
At the time of creation, no attempts were made at intentional preservation, yet analog materials have a chance of surviving and serving as the historical record that biographers, historians, and novelists rely on.
在创作之时，人们并没有刻意去保存它们，但模拟（实物）材料却有机会留存下来，成为传记作家、历史学家和小说家所依赖的历史记录。
oversupply of materials.
资料供过于求。
Later civilisations would value the skilled blacksmith’s labour in a nail even more than the raw material.
后来的文明对一枚钉子中熟练铁匠所付出劳动的重视，甚至超过了对原材料的重视。
a. 物质的，肉体的，实质性的4 次
The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types.
时尚业知道，自己在注重物质装饰和理想化体型方面存在固有问题。
Even better would be to help elevate notions of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.
更好的做法是帮助提升人们的审美观念，使其超越某一特定行业的物质标准。
Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly.
然而，购买这些物质商品带来的满足感消退得相当快。
Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods — paintings, sculpture and architecture — and superfluous experiences — music, literature, religion and philosophy.
人类的独特之处在于，他们不仅能制造工具，还能转而利用工具创造出非生存必需的物质产品——绘画、雕塑和建筑——以及非生存必需的体验——音乐、文学、宗教和哲学。