A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
材料
Material
Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.
通过理解物质世界与日常生活和行为的所有关系，使物质世界达到更高的目的。
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.
当代科学是以唯物主义哲学为基础的，唯物主义哲学主张一切现实都是物质的或物质的。
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
在最好的材料中，你总是应该能够以某种方式使一个故事转换到其他时间。
I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
我从来不想处于必须为我的材料辩护的境地。太主观了。这是为别人辩护或不辩护。
I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
我想找到一些真正精彩的事情来做，然后花时间在缺乏优秀材料的地方寻找，尤其是对女性而言。
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
我对那些写得很好的材料和对社会有影响的女性的反应都很好，她们身上发生了一些悲剧或里程碑式的事情。
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
在我的职业生涯中，我不得不处理的最困难的事情之一是保持我的材料的主题，即使我只发行专辑每三四年。
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
当我们克服了肤浅的物质需求和即时的满足，我们就会与自己的深层联系起来，也会与他人和宇宙联系起来。
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
我认为作为一个作曲家，对我影响最大的一件事就是我能在多大程度上解构和重建我正在创作的材料。
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
我不缺材料或报价，这只是你选择做什么的问题。但我想我扮演罗密欧的机会已经结束了，这是很现实的。
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
我们都像小蚂蚁一样，拿着手边的材料到处乱窜。每一代人都能找到新的材料。这只是进化，不是吗?
Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.
尽管如此，我们对旧材料的看法和我们对新材料的看法非常相似，所以如果这给了我们一个机会去推广它，那么，是的，我们会去做。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.
材料越有趣，我就能做得越有趣。
Nonfiction that uses novelistic devices and strategies to shape the work. That's material that I really like.
运用小说手法和策略来塑造作品的非小说类作品。那是我非常喜欢的材料。
I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.
我真的在寻找高峰体验和戏剧性的材料，让高峰体验成为可能。
I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.
我有很长一段时间的所有材料，但我只是太忙了。有时候我们会坐在家里，在家庭聚会上唱一些这样的歌，每个人都说我应该录下来。
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.
如果我不得不放弃其他一切，只保留工作的一个方面，我就必须继续写作，因为我热爱写作。是的，我也喜欢表演。但我不能放弃写作材料。
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
物质上的成功让你有能力专注于其他真正重要的事情。这就是能够做出改变，不仅在你自己的生活中，而且在其他人的生活中。