The amount of material one must read to conduct a reasonable review of a topic keeps growing.

随着论文数量激增，研究人员在开展课题前进行文献梳理所需要的阅读材料也在不断增加。

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One is the material technology, the other is spiritual culture.

一种是物质技术，另一种是精神文化。

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This one, however, is made of concrete, a novel construction material in those days.

然而，这栋房子是由混凝土制成的，混凝土在当时是一种新型建筑材料。

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The Agriculture Department has a soybean germplasm collection, a collection of genetic material passed from one generation to the next.

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This is a course that introduces you to the New Testament literature, but also the history of other material from the very first one hundred years or so of early Christianity.

本课不仅介绍,新约文学，还会介绍其他文献的历史,可以追溯到基督教早期100年左右的时期。

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Point I want to make about this, though, is that we are going to cover a lot of material that is not in the assigned readings, and we do have assigned readings associated with each one of these lectures.

要说的一点是,我们会有很多,不在拓展阅读里面的材料，而且还有涉及到,每节课内容的拓展阅读。

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Especially when teaching success seems to depend so mightily on the quality and drive of the student material one is given?

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Like an office printer that puts 2D digital files on a piece of paper, a 3D printer creates components by depositing thin layers of material one after another using a digital blueprint until the exact component required has been created.

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The Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir tells the story of Soraya (Suheir Hammad), a young Brooklyn-born woman of Palestinian ancestry who travels to Ramallah to reclaim an emotional heritage as well as a material one: the long-dormant bank account of her grandfather, who was born in Yaffa but left in 1948.

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