1. What´s the matter?
    怎么回事？

2. What´s the matter, Andy?
    怎么了，安迪？

3. When a Greek philosopher said 2,000 years ago that it isn't events that matter but our opinion of them, this is what he was talking about.
    2,000年前的一位希腊哲学家说过，重要的不是事件本身，而是我们对事件的看法，他说的正是此意。

4. They required her affirmation of the fact.
    他们要求她确认这一事实。

5. The discrepancy in their ages seemed not to matter.
    他们之间年龄的差异似乎没多大关系。

6. The bare narration of the fact took two hours.
    仅仅叙述事实就花了两个小时。

7. The fact is recognized by observers both within the United States and abroad.
    这一事实得到美国国内外观察家的承认。

8. The rumour is without foundation in fact.
    这个谣传没有事实根据。

9. This modern faith in medicines is proved by the fact that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures and shows no signs at present of ceasing to rise.
    卫生部门的处度药费上升到了天文数字，并且目前尚无停止上升的迹象，这个事实证实了现代人对药物的依赖。

10. The apparatus thus described, however, records only the horizontal component of the wave movement, which is, in fact, much more complicated.
    然而，这里所说的仪器记录下来的只是地震波运动中的水平部分，地震波的运动实际比这要复杂得多。