mat.ter

matter的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈmætə]
KK音标发音： [ˈmætɚ]

matter的词性：
n.（名词）

1. Something that occupies space and can be perceived by one or more senses; a physical body, a physical substance, or the universe as a whole.
物质：占据一定空间并能被一种或多种感觉感知到的东西；实体、物质或整个宇宙

2. Physics Something that has mass and exists as a solid, liquid, or gas.
【物理学】 物体：有质量并以固态、液态或气态形式存在的东西

3. A specific type of substance:
物质的一种特定形式：

inorganic matter.
无机物

4. Discharge or waste, such as pus or feces, from a living organism.
排出物：从生命体排生物或废物，如脓、屎、尿等

5. Philosophy In Aristotelian and Scholastic use, that which is in itself undifferentiated and formless and which, as the subject of change and development, receives form and becomes substance and experience.
【哲学】 命题的本质，内容：亚里斯多德学派和学术派用法，他们认为物质自身是无显著特点的、无形的，但作为变化和发展的主体有其形式并成为实质和体验

6. Christian Science That which is postulated by the mortal mind, regarded as illusion and as the opposite of substance or God:
【基督教科学派】 幻觉意识：心里假想为真的或正确的东西，被认为是幻觉，有悖于物质和上帝：

“Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal”(Mary Baker Eddy)
“精神是真实的、永恒的；物质是不真实的、短暂的”(玛丽·贝克·艾迪)

7. The substance of thought or expression as opposed to the manner in which it is stated or conveyed.
思想的本质：与思维和表达的方式相悖的思想或表达的本质

8. A subject of concern, feeling, or action:
考量，事物：关心、感情或行为的承受者：

matters of foreign policy; a personal matter.See Synonyms at subject
外交政策的问题；私事参见 subject

9. Trouble or difficulty:
麻烦，困难：：

What's the matter with your car?
你的车出什么毛病了?

10. An approximated quantity, amount, or extent:
近似量：大约的数量、总额或范围：

The construction will last a matter of years.
这项工程将会持续一年左右

11. Something printed or otherwise set down in writing:
印刷品，书写之物：

reading matter.
阅读材料

12. Something sent by mail.
邮件：邮寄的东西

13. Printing
【印刷术】

14. Composed type.
排版

15. Material to be set in type.
被编排的材料

matter的词性：
v.intr.（不及物动词）

16. To be of importance:
要紧，有关系：

“Love is most nearly itself/When here and now cease to matter”(TS Eliot)See Synonyms at count ¹
“爱就是爱；从现在开始停止对它的任何评价吧”(TS艾略特)参见 count¹

17. In fact; actually.
事实上；实际上

18. So far as that is concerned; as for that.
就此而言，至于此

19. Regardless of:
不论：

“Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,/No matter where it's going”(Edna St Vincent Millay)
“可我会踏上任何一辆火车，不管它去哪里”(埃德娜·圣文森特·米莱)

matter的词源：

20. Middle English
中古英语

21. from Old French matere
源自 古法语 matere

22. from Latin m3teria * see m3ter-
源自 拉丁语 m3teria *参见 m3ter-