Immaterial
[ɪmə'tɪərɪəl] or [,ɪmə'tɪrɪəl]
解释:
(adj.) not consisting of matter; 'immaterial apparitions'; 'ghosts and other immaterial entities' .
(adj.) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; 'whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)'; 'what others think is altogether indifferent to him' .
(adj.) of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; 'an objection that is immaterial after the fact' .
录入:凯文--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied.
(a.) Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does so or not.
手打:罗纳德
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Incorporeal, unbodied, spiritual.[2]. Unimportant, insignificant, unessential, non-essential, of no importance, of no consequence.
卡洛琳手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Spiritual, incorporeal, unimportant, insignificant, trivial, trifling,unessential
ANT:Material, physical, corporeal, essential, Important
手打:撒迪厄斯
解释:
adj. not consisting of matter: incorporeal: unimportant.—v.t. Immatē′rialise to separate from matter.—ns. Immate′rialism the doctrine that there is no material substance; Immatē′rialist one who believes in this; Immaterial′ity the quality of being immaterial or of not consisting of matter.—adv. Immatē′rially.
编辑:朱尔斯
例句:
- His whole material and immaterial life is wonderfully strange; his death, the strangest thing of all. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- These philosophers are the curious reasoners concerning the material or immaterial substances, in which they suppose our perceptions to inhere. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The only thing essential for the production of a musical sound is that the waves which reach the ear shall be rapid and regular; it is immaterial how these waves are produced. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town; fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- In contrast, reason, or science, lays hold of the immaterial, the ideal, the spiritual. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Is the indivisible subject, or immaterial substance, if you will, on the left or on the right hand of the perception? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- It is immaterial which way the wire is wound around the bar, the determining factor of polarity being the DIRECTION of the current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But this inference is chiefly grounded on analogy, and it is immaterial whether or not it be accepted. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Moreover nature could be known only through observation; it appealed to the senses--which were merely material as opposed to a purely immaterial mind. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Immaterial circumstances had changed as greatly as material ones. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
编辑:朱尔斯