動詞 materialize:

1. come into being; become reality
   同義詞：happen, materialise

1. Your promises have failed to (ie did not) materialize.
   你沒有信守諾言。
2. His plan may materialize.
   他的計(jì)畫可能實(shí)現(xiàn)。
3. He claimed that he could make ghosts materialize.
   他聲稱他可以使鬼魂現(xiàn)身。
4. Our plans did not materialize.
   我們的計(jì)畫未能實(shí)現(xiàn)。
5. The threatened strike never materialized.
   揚(yáng)言要舉行罷工，卻從未付諸行動。

ma.te.ri.al.ize

v.（動詞）
ma.te.ri.al.ized,ma.te.ri.al.iz.ing,ma.te.ri.al.iz.es
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To cause to become real or actual:
使成真，實(shí)現(xiàn)：使成為真的或確實(shí)的：
例句：
By building the house, we materialized a dream.
通過建造這所房子，我們實(shí)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)夢想

To cause to become materialistic:
使物質(zhì)化，使具體化：使成為唯物主義的：
例句：
.Inequality has the natural and necessary effect . . . of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.(Matthew Arnold)
.不平等具有一種自然的、必要的效力…使人們的上層階級物質(zhì)化，使我們的中層階級世俗化，使我們的低層階級殘暴化.(馬修·阿諾德)

v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To assume material or effective form:
實(shí)質(zhì)化；具體化：具備物質(zhì)的或?qū)嶋H的形式：
例句：
Their support on the eastern flank did not materialize.
他們想支援東翼力量的計(jì)劃未能實(shí)現(xiàn)

To take physical form or shape.
形體化：采取物質(zhì)的形式或成形
To appear, especially suddenly.See Synonyms at appear
突然出現(xiàn)參見 appear

【引伸】
mate.rializa.tion
mate.rializ.er
n.（名詞）
In its original sensesmaterialize is used intransitively to mean .to assume material form,. as inMarley`s ghost materialized before Scrooge`s eyes, or transitively to mean .to cause to assume material form,. as inDisney materialized his dream in a plot of orchard land in Orange County. But these uses are probably less common nowadays than two extended senses of the intransitive sense of the verb.In the first the meaning is roughly .to appear suddenly,.as inNo sooner had we set the menu down than a waiter materialized at our table. Some critics have labeled this use incorrect,but the criticism may suggest an overliteralism;used in this way,the verb has the sense .to appear as if by magic..Materialize also means .to take effective shape, come into existence,. particularly as applied to things or events that have been foreseen or anticipated:
materialize 的最初含義是作為不及物動詞時(shí)意思是.具有物質(zhì)形式，. 例如在瑪雷的鬼魂在斯克魯奇眼前顯現(xiàn)了 一句中或作及物動詞時(shí)意思是.使具有物質(zhì)形式，. 例如在迪斯尼在奧蘭治郡的一塊果園實(shí)現(xiàn)了他的夢想 中。 但是現(xiàn)在這兩種用法也許不如該詞作為不及物動詞的兩種延伸的用法更為常見。第一種用法的大致意思是指.突然出現(xiàn)，.例如在我們剛放下菜單不久，侍者就突然出現(xiàn)在我們的飯桌旁 中。 一些批評家認(rèn)為這種用法不準(zhǔn)確，但是這種批評未免太拘泥于字面意思；同樣這種用法下，該詞還有.仿佛由于魔力而出現(xiàn).的意思。Materialize 還有.顯形，顯效，出現(xiàn).的含義， 尤其適用在已經(jīng)預(yù)料到或被期望的事物。
例句：
The promised subsidies never materialized.
允諾的補(bǔ)助金從來沒有出現(xiàn)。

例句：
It was thought the community would oppose the measure, but no new objections materialized.
據(jù)猜想社區(qū)可能會反對該措施，但是新的反對意見還沒有出現(xiàn)。

This usage has been criticized,but it is well established in reputable writing and follows a familiar pattern of metaphoric extension.The same logic that allows us to sayThe plans did not materialize allows us to use equivalent and unobjectionable paraphrases with expressions such as take form and take shape.
這種用法曾經(jīng)受到批評，但是它曾在一些享有聲望的作品中很好地被運(yùn)用并且跟隨了隱喻引申含義的常見模式。我們說計(jì)劃沒有實(shí)現(xiàn) 時(shí)所用的邏輯允許我們使用相同的、無任何異議的其他表達(dá)方式，例如 take form 和 take shape