substance
n. 物质,材料; 实质,内容; [神]灵; (织品的)质地
A substance is a solid, powder, liquid, or gas with particular properties.
There's absolutely no regulation of cigarettes to make sure that they don't include poisonous substances...
根本没有法规来确保香烟不含有毒物质。
The substance that's causing the problem comes from the barley.
引起该问题的物质来自大麦。
Substance is the quality of being important or significant.
It's questionable whether anything of substance has been achieved...
是否已经取得了任何实质性进展还是个问题。
Syria will attend only if the negotiations deal with issues of substance.
只有在谈判涉及重大问题时叙利亚才会参加。
The substance of what someone says or writes is the main thing that they are trying to say.
The substance of his discussions doesn't really matter.
他讨论的要点实际上根本不重要。
If you say that something has no substance, you mean that it is not true.
There is no substance in any of these allegations.
这些指控都毫无根据。
A person of substance has a lot of money, power, or influence.
...mature men of substance.
有钱有势的成熟男人
1. that which has mass and occupies space;
2. the stuff of which an object consists
3. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
4. the idea that is intended;
5. considerable capital (wealth or income);
6. what a communication that is about something is about
material, matter, substance, stuff
这些名词均含"物质,东西"之意。
in substance
基本上,大体上
The substance is hard and granular.
该物质地坚硬,呈颗粒状.
The terrorists charged the bomb with an explosive substance.
那些恐怖主义者给炸弹上装了炸药.
Is there any substance to their claim?
他们的要求有实质内容 吗 ?
The substance of their talk is condensed into a paragraph.
他们谈话的要旨被压缩成一段话.
Despite the fact that the bottle is tinted a delicate shade of green, an observant visitor would soon notice that it is filled with what looks like a thick, greyish substance.
尽管瓶子呈现嫩绿色, 但观察力敏锐的客人不久会注意到,瓶子里装的看上去像是浓厚的灰色物质.