Immaterial

(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

• 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