If code is design, then the computer languages and frameworks we use define the raw material for what we can design.

如果对代码进行设计，那么我们所用的计算机语言和架构就定义了我们可以设计的原始资料。

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Until recently, however, Silicon Valley did not take much interest in the alternative use of its principal raw material.

然而，直到近几年，硅谷（电子科技产业中心）才开始对这种基础天然物质的其他用途产生兴趣。

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She makes use of people she meets as raw material for her fiction.

她把她所遇见的人们作为她创作小说的素材。

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Metal cans use up more raw material than plastic pouches do, and they require more energy to transport.

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Many products also use petroleum-based raw material inputs somewhere in the suppl chain.

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Nucor ( NUE) is the largest U.S. operator of mini-mills, smaller steel facilities that use scrap as their raw material.

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