The actors made up most of the material as they performed.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Either keep up the good work or you better change your strategy because you are not mastering the material.

保持好的工作,或者你最好改变你的策略,因为你不擅长处理这个材料。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

just because a lot of the material that you're covering isn't coming up

因为许多你复习考试要用的材料

临时抱佛脚？也做过 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The raw material for the digester comes from livestock waste that might otherwise end up in a smelly manure lagoon on the farm.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

So for some you that are less interested in maybe the physical structure of an individual atom, now some more exciting material for you might be coming up if you like to think about how, instead, molecules behave, either within bonding, within themselves, or with other molecules, that's what we're going to be heading to in this next unit.

那么对于某些同学，你们或许不感兴趣,对于单个原子的物理结构，现在可能有令你感到兴奋的内容,要出现了，如果你更喜欢思考,分子的行为，或者是关于成键的，或者是关于它们本身的，又或者与其它分子之间的行为，这些将是我们下个单元要讲的内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Sierra Leonean law is clear. Anyone who "maliciously" publishes defamatory material could be put in jail for up to three years, whether or not what they have written is true.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

For example, one thing that could happen is that you build it up with wood and clay, you pick the wrong material for a bridge, and it will not stand up to the forces of nature.

例如,其中的一个问题是,选择了木头和粘土作为造桥的材料,你就选错了材料,这座桥难以与自然力相抗衡

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Francis Bacon, influenced by Machiavelli, urged human beings to employ their reason to force nature to give up its secrets, to treat nature like a woman, to master nature in order to improve man's material well being.

弗朗西斯·培根受到马基雅弗利的影响,提倡人们运用理性,来让自然原形毕露,像对待女人那样对待自然,去征服自然以提升人类的物质生活

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work, but the point of the question, -15, 20 minutes of work, but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and do the readings.

几分钟就能完成,这个作业的目的,要十几到二十分钟完成吧,这个作业的目的在于激励大家,跟上课程的进度并去阅读材料

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There is a kind of drum beat of thematic material as these scenes pile up.

剧情在不断变换,的场景下不断上演。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Sometimes there are completely new emphases and the story can come out to be a very, very different story. 1 and 2 Chronicles are a retelling and a reworking of much of the material from Genesis through 2 Kings, and it cleans up a lot of the embarrassing moments.

复述的故事会有全新的侧重点，可能和原来的故事之间,存在很大的差别，《历代志》上下就是,对从《创世记》到两部《列王纪》中大量材料的复述和,再加工，它清除了很多令人窘迫的故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选