substance
/ˈsʌbstəns/ 名词 B2中文： 实质、资产、财产、物质
- Physical matter; material.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness. · Some textile fabrics have little substance.
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources. · a man of substance
- Drugs (illegal narcotics) · substance abuse
- Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.
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Had Lydia and her mother known the substance of her conference with her father, their indignation would hardly have found expression in their united volubility.
Elizabeth was forced to give in to a little falsehood here; for to acknowledge the substance of their conversation was impossible.
She soon learnt that they were indebted for their present good understanding to the efforts of his aunt, who _did_ call on him in her return through London, and there relate her journey to Longbourn, its motive, and the substance of her conversation with Elizabeth; dwelling emphatically on every expression of the latter, which, in her Ladyship’s apprehension, peculiarly denoted her perverseness and assurance, in the belief that such a relation must assist her endeavours to obtain that promise from her nephew which _she_ had refused to give.
In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
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