Is it something material a ball, an apple, a plaything which must be taken from one to be given to another?

是一些实在的东西吗？是球、苹果、玩偶……可以信手拈来、随意给人的实物吗？

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Within two years, Iorio hopes, the project will be able to create samples of the new material a few centimeters in diameter.

Iorio希望他们能够在两年内合成出直径达数厘米的样品。

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By recycling rubbish you are giving that material a second life, and while recycling is improving a lot more of the rubbish thrown away could be recycled.

回收再利用给这些材料“第二次生命”，尽管越来越多的废品被回收再利用，仍然有许多可以被回收利用的材料被当作垃圾扔掉。

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A comet is a huge ball of frozen gas and dust that often releases a long trail of material as it nears the sun.

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They really don't.So, if everybody masters the material A I can say A's on the house.

他们真的不知道，如果每个人都掌握了知识,那么我敢说，人人可得。

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Likewise for mass, we will take a chunk of some material and we will call it a kilogram.

质量也是这样,我们找来一大块材料,然后称它为 1 千克

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In form, the movie is perhaps no more than a conventional triangle drama, but the milieu lends the material a special charm and interest.

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In so doing it gives this material a new life.

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They were forced to conclude that a half-dozen of them had dropped in volume and were leaking anywhere from a few gallons to a few hundred gallons of radioactive material a year.

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