"I am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

This is a poem about bending and breaking, forms, the material givens of the world.

这是个关于曲折和中断的诗，形式，这个世界给我们的原料。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Well really, the things we've looked at thus far can you do after just a semester of this kind of material and exposure to this particular world.

当结束这样一门课时,你是不是能通过学习和接触计算机科学,也做出我们刚刚看到的这些东西。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Deceptively simple but perfect for this time of year is Adin Steinsaltz's Simple Words , a series of short essays about what it means to be human in a material world.

NPR: The Least Material of Material Gifts

For Crawford, the failure to appreciate skilled manual labor is a symptom of something even worse: a narcissistic refusal to grapple with the material world.

NEWYORKER: Out of the Office

The FBI grew alarmed about crop-dusters after a crop-dusting manual was discovered among the belongings of a man now being held as a material witness in the investigation into the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

CNN: U.S. extends ban on crop-dusters