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Materialize Suddenly Failed Things Word Form Verb 动词

英语单词 materialize
英美音标 英 [mə'tɪəriəlaɪz] 美 [mə'tɪriəlaɪz]
中文释义 v.成为现实;成有形;实现;具体化;出现
英语例句 (1) The threatened strike never materialized.
(2) Our plans did not materialize.
(3) He claimed that he could make ghosts materialize.
(4) He failed to materialize yesterday.
中文例句 (1) 扬言要举行罢工,却从未付诸行动。
(2) 我们的计画未能实现。
(3) 他声称他可以使鬼魂现身。
(4) 昨天他并没有出现。
vocabulary简明 When you materialize, you show up suddenly after being missing, unborn or unseen. Think of Harry Potter removing his invisibility cloak. He materializes.
vocabulary扩展 Living things aren't the only things that materialize. Car keys and reading glasses materialize when you've been searching for them for a while and then they are suddenly there on the table. If you're lucky an unexpected business deal will materialize. Like material, the word is related to the Latin word meaning "matter." Matter, is, of course, all the stuff of this earth, anything and everything that takes form. So to materialize is to take form.
柯林斯解释
in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 materialise
1
[VERB 动词]变为现实;实现;发生;出现 If a possible or expected event does not materialize, it does not happen.
  [V]
  [usu with brd-neg]
  • A rebellion by radicals failed to materialize...

    激进分子的叛乱没有得逞。

  • None of the anticipated difficulties materialized.

    预想中的困难全都没有出现。

2
[VERB 动词]突然出现;显形;现身 If a person or thing materializes, they suddenly appear, after they have been invisible or in another place.
  [V]
  • Tamsin materialized at her side, notebook at the ready...

    塔姆辛从她身旁冒了出来,且备好了笔记本。

  • A moment or two later champagne in an ice-bucket materialized beside them.

    片刻之后,他们身边出现了一只装着香槟的冰桶。

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