英?[?m?t?(r)]美?[?m?t?r]

n.事情; 事態; 關乎…的問題; 材料; 物質v.要緊; 有關系

[物]物質; 重要; 回事

no matter不論怎樣;不要緊;a matter of大約;…的問題;no matter how不管怎樣;no matter what不管什么，無論什么;organic matter有機質;有機物;有機物質;subject matter主題;主旨;doesn't matter無所謂;無關緊要;matter of factn. 事實;no matter where無論哪里;for that matter就此而言;至于那個;說到那;

復數:?matters;第三人稱單數:?matters;過去式:?mattered;過去分詞:?mattered;現在分詞:?mattering;

n.事情;事件;活動

activityconcernaffairbusiness

n.物質;填充物

materialcontentcompositionsubstance

affair,business,matter,concern,thing

這些名詞均含"事情"之意。

affair：含義較廣，側重指已發生或必須去做的任何事情或事務。復數形式多指重大或較復雜的事務。

business：通常指較重要或較難而又必須承擔的事情，也可指商事。

matter：普通用詞，著重指一件考慮中的或需要處理的事。

concern：往往強調與個人或團體利害有直接或重大關系的事。

thing：用作"事情"解時，詞義較籠統、含糊，多用于指不很具體的事。

n.物質;事情;情勢

mindspirit

'Steve, what do you want?' — 'Coke, Pepsi, it doesn't matter.'

“史蒂夫，你要喝點什么？”——“可口可樂，百事，隨便啦。”

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

What mattered most was the residents' physical health and mental status.

That's because matter and anti- matter are basically opposites of each other.

The fact of the matter is that most people consume far more protein than they actually need...

真實的情況是，大多數人攝入的蛋白質比他們實際所需的多出許多。

It measures things that do not matter and misses things that do.

It's our experience of the garden that matters―how being in those gardens made us feel.

...waste matter from industries.

工業廢料

Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.

What's the matter with your office?...

你們部門出什么事了嗎？

“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( ' , AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps.

Because there was slightly more matter, the collisions quickly depleted all the anti-matter and left just enough matter to create stars, planets, and eventually us.

A finding that was a bit surprising is that to consumers, the inner parts of high-tech devices do apparently matter.

Getting around a city is one thing — and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.

...waste matter from industries.

工業廢料

However, if others benefit in the process, and I get some reward too, does it really matter where my motivation lies?

Although no form of matter yet discovered moves as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments have already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.

One reason any campaign wants a popular celebrity spokesperson is because kids are attracted to them no matter what they are doing.

None of this is a matter of asceticism（苦行主義）; it is just pure selfishness.

Obesity is probably less a matter of weight than body fat.

To make matters worse, Moth was diagnosed with a serious disease.

There is no gap between mind and matter.

That should be a matter of concern in a presidential election year.

With no known vaccination or cure available, it seems only a matter of time until another epidemic erupts.

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year-about 64 items per person一and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

He expected to be at East Grinstead station in a matter of hours...

他希望幾個小時內可以到達東格林斯特德站。

'Did I wake you?' — 'Yes, but it doesn't matter.'

“我把你吵醒了？”——“是的，不過沒關系。”

Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.

It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raiseobjections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its placeis a work extremely troublesome.

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It was not a matter of empire but a matter of decency.

它不是帝國的事情，而是關乎體面的事情。

—— 精選例句 ◎ 比鄰 bi0.cn

Oh, auntie, I'm—What's the matter with you—what is the matter with you, child?

哦，姨媽，我——你怎么啦——你怎么啦，孩子？

—— 精選例句

What's the matter, anyhow?

這到底是怎么回事？

—— 精選例句 ◎ 比鄰 bi0.cn

I do not know myself what is the matter with me!

我自己也不知道我是怎幺了！

—— 精選例句

Why, what's the matter with you?

哎呀，你這是怎幺了？

—— 精選例句

That's an entirely different matter.

那完全是另一碼事。

—— 《牛津詞典》

No matter where you're from.

無論你是哪里人。

—— 精選例句 ◎ 比鄰 bi0.cn

Is something the matter with Bob? He seems very down.

鮑勃有什么事兒吧？他好像情緒很低落。

—— 《牛津詞典》

Does it really matter who did it?

是誰干的真的很重要嗎？

—— 《牛津詞典》

Well--all right--it won't matter to come here once more.

好吧——好吧——再來一次也沒關系。

—— 精選例句