Matter doesn't strive, its not the material things have some sort of desire to reach a particular state.

物质本身并不会，努力朝着某些特殊状态迈进。

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It’s not the material for those petty common things, and no wonder it’s ridiculed often by people with petty common views.

它不是做这些小玩意儿的，所 以常常就遭到一般世俗的讥讽。

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The material will not be reissued if lost.

材料丢失，不予补发。

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So,the planners asked, why not re-use the material to rebuild Poplar Island?

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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。

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So that would probably be de Broglie's answer for why, in fact, we're not observing the wavelength behavior of material on a day-to-day life.

所以那就可能是德布罗意关于,为什么我们无法再日常生活中,观测到物质的波动行为的答案。

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"We did not solicit the material, not pay for it, nor commit ourselves to publish it, " the Economist said.

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The self-healing technologies did not restore the material to its pristine state -- "There is some residual damage, " he said.

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Silicon, however, is not the best material for sensing light.

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