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not important in a particular situation 不重要；无关紧要 The cost is immaterial. 费用并不重要。 - immaterial to somebody/something
It is immaterial to me whether he stays or goes. 他的去留与我无关。 These facts are immaterial to the problem. 这些事实对这个问题无关紧要。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- prove
- seem
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- completely
- entirely
- quite
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- to
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not having a physical form 无形体的；非物质的 an immaterial God 无形的上帝 the immaterial mind/soul 非物质的头脑/灵魂
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (2)): from late Latin immaterialis, from in- ‘not’ + materialis ‘relating to matter’.