The fact is that people like piling up material goods.

事实是，人们就爱添置物质用品。

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We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

我们还认识到，没有信心和决心，堆积物质上的食物不能弥补生活上的空虚。

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He now admits to copying or making up material he submitted in eight papers to international journals and has been fired, along with the head of his research institute.

如今他承认，在自己发表在国际刊物上的八篇论文中存在复制或捏造材料的行为，他为此被解雇，并免去所在研究所的负责人职务。

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They said hot melted material flows up from deep inside the Earth through the split.

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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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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

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Though he wrote most of "The Low Highway" on tour or in New Orleans, where he was shooting "Treme, " he picks up material everywhere.

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Cheeky and immensely likeable, a natural striker and pin-up material, possibly the worst time-keeper - with the possible exception of Martin O'Neill - I have ever met in the Scottish game: East Kilbride's finest is all of these.

BBC: Chick Young's view

"If an ant heap is a meter high over ground, which is to say, about 3 feet, it's probably digging up material from three to four meters below, so you can collect samples from those ant heaps, " said Mr. Petzer, who says that is a constant ratio.

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