Artificial
[ɑːtɪ'fɪʃ(ə)l] or [,ɑrtɪ'fɪʃl]
解释:
(adj.) artificially formal; 'that artificial humility that her husband hated'; 'contrived coyness'; 'a stilted letter of acknowledgment'; 'when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation' .
(adj.) contrived by art rather than nature; 'artificial flowers'; 'artificial flavoring'; 'an artificial diamond'; 'artificial fibers'; 'artificial sweeteners' .
(adj.) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes .
整理:蒂娜--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
(a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
(a.) Artful; cunning; crafty.
(a.) Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
校对:内尔
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Factitious, made by art, not natural.[2]. Fictitious, feigned, counterfeited, sham, spurious.[3]. Assumed, affected, forced, strained.
校对:玛拉
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Invented, fabricated, fictitious, constructed, manufactured, pretended,simulated, false, assumed, concocted, contrived, deceptive, artful, affected,unnatural, constrained
ANT:Natural, inartificial, genuine, spontaneous, transparent, artless, unaffected,[SeeARTFUL]
录入:玛格
例句:
- Artificial purely. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- De Chardonnet’s Process of Making Artificial Silk. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- About 300 patents have been granted for artificial legs and arms. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- You know that these have to be manufactured by artificial light, as exposure to sunlight always results in an explosion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- We know how human nature may be degraded; we do not know how by artificial means any improvement in the breed can be effected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The hides are all hung in a dry loft, where artificial heat of different temperatures is used until they are thoroughly dry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- At Dewlish in Dorset, an artificial trench has been found which is supposed to have been a Pal?olithic trap for elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
编辑:陌莉