What mattered was that he had deserted Chiang Kaishek and of his own accord.
重要的是他自觉地背叛了蒋介石。

To van Loon, human achievement mattered above all things.
对房龙来说，人类的成就比一切都重要。

When brute strength mattered more than brains, men had an inherent advantage.
在蛮力比脑力重要的年代, 男人有天生的优势。

And for the first time, Africa mattered more to me than ever before.
第一次非洲比以前对我来说更重要了

All that mattered was somehow to stay alive until the spasm was over.
现在主要得是把痛熬过去。

But it was how Bob announced the program that mattered so much.
鲍勃是这样宣布 这个重要的项目的。

It mattered little that he had assured her it was a very dismal place.
他告诉她, 那是一个阴森可怕的地方, 她也不在乎。

Yet nothing mattered in those days when people weeded their fields with a hoe or by bare hand before planting cassava.
那什么都不算一回事的年月，锄草，种木薯，拔草。

It did not have the range of a bazooka， but that hardly mattered in the hedgerow country.
其射程不及巴祖卡，但在树篱地带，射距远近不甚紧要。

That's because they bestow value upon things that once mattered to them.
这是因为人们给曾经对他们很重要的东西，赋予了价值。

Then, when it mattered, he took home only bronze.
之后, 奥运会开始了, 他只将一枚铜牌带回家。

All that mattered was that they had a body to bury and perform prayers upon.
重要的是，他们有一具尸体可以埋葬并为之祷告。

As for Laura and me, the colour of our skin has never mattered.
至于我和劳拉，肤色根本不是问题。

Those were the things that mattered in combat.
打起仗来，这两手可是不能等闲视之的。

I smattered to the computer.
我对计算机只是一知半解。

But for Carlos and Gaby Solis, The only connection that mattered was the romantic one.
可对于卡洛斯和加布来说 他们唯一在乎的慰藉 是浪漫相依。

With each day she spent in the sun these crucial questions mattered less.
随着一天天无忧无虑的生活，这些至关紧要的问题也不那么要紧了。

Thus, the on board date mattered more than the date of issuance of the document.
因此，装船日期比单据的出具日期更重要。

It mattered a great deal to her what other people thought of her.
其他人怎么看她对她来说极为重要。

Whatever comes, there was this hour when nothing mattered, all was unbearably dear.
无论如何，会有这时刻什么都无所谓，全都是至爱。

The difference mattered less two decades ago, when light weight trucks represented less than a fifth of new-car sales.
20年前，这个差别问题还不大，因为那时候轻型卡车销售量只占新车销售量的五分之一。

But then no one really thought the donor mattered once he had given his sperm.
但是, 大家当时都觉得捐精者献出精子后就无关紧要了。

The Protestant work ethic and the scientific revolution no doubt mattered.
新教徒得职业伦理和科技革命无疑也具有重要意义。

Nothing else mattered him now.
别的事情，他都置之度外了。

Encounters often have its lights coming to end, have mattered a fine hundred thousand turn back.
遇见可以是灯火阑珊，也无妨百转千回。