Capacity
[kə'pæsɪtɪ] or [kə'pæsəti]
解释:
(noun.) a specified function; 'he was employed in the capacity of director'; 'he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary'.
(noun.) the maximum production possible; 'the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity'.
(noun.) tolerance for alcohol; 'he had drunk beyond his capacity'.
(noun.) capability to perform or produce; 'among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism'; 'limited runway capacity'; 'a great capacity for growth'.
(noun.) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior.
(noun.) (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; 'the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes'.
(noun.) the amount that can be contained; 'the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons'.
鲍里斯校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
(n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.
(n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
(n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
(n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.
塞西尔编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Capaciousness, magnitude (in reference to contents), volume, dimensions, amplitude, extent of room or space.[2]. Power (of apprehension), faculty, talent, genius, gift, turn, FORTE, parts, brains, aptness, aptitude, discernment, wit, mother-wit, calibre.[3]. Ability, ableness, capability, cleverness, skill, skilfulness, competency, efficiency, readiness.[4]. Office, post, sphere, province, character, function, service, charge.
校对:马蒂
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Space, size, volume, tonnage, calibre, ability, faculty, compatability,cleverness, talents, magnitude, parts, competency, compressiveness,accommodation
ANT:Narrowness, restriction, Incapacity, coarctation, contractedness
整理:塞尔瓦托
解释:
n. power of holding or grasping a thing: room: volume: power of mind: character: position enabling one to do something.—adj. Capā′cious including much: roomy: wide: extensive.—adv. Capā′ciously.—n. Capā′ciousness.—v.t. Capac′itate to make capable: to qualify; Capacity for heat power of absorbing heat.—Legal capacity the power to alter one's rights or duties by the exercise of free-will or responsibility to punishment for one's acts.
手打:奈杰尔
例句:
- It is, of course, arbitrary to separate industrial competency from capacity in good citizenship. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The newspapers had previously published articles showing the unusual capacity and performance of the battery, and public interest had thus been greatly awakened. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Social responsibility for the use of time and personal capacity is more generally recognized than it used to be. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In the interests of renown the forwardness should lie chiefly in the capacity to handle things. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- He asked to be relieved from further duty in the capacity in which he was engaged and his request was granted. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- I thought you might be going there--oh, not in that capacity! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- At the end of 1909 the New York Edison Company alone was operating twenty-eight stations and substations, having a total capacity of 159,500 kilowatts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of readers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The Sunbury generating plant consisted of an Armington & Sims engine driving two small Edison dynamos having a total capacity of about four hundred lamps of 16 c. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In those three capacities I speak with authority, with confidence, with honourable regret. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We are in our private and personal capacities, of course. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Tumbled together on the table are some pieces of iron, purposely broken to be tested at various periods of their service, in various capacities. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The spontaneous development of our organs and capacities constitutes the education of Nature. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Hence the need that the teacher know both subject matter and the characteristic needs and capacities of the student. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It must suggest the kind of environment needed to liberate and to organize their capacities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- On the contrary, certain capacities of an individual are not brought out except under the stimulus of associating with others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Active habits involve thought, invention, and initiative in applying capacities to new aims. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The discourse seemed well adapted to their capacities, and was delivered in a pleasing, familiar manner, coaxing them, as it were, to be good. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- What chance had Mr. Franklin--what chance had anybody of average reputation and capacities--against such a man as this? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before to-day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- To foresee a terminus of an act is to have a basis upon which to observe, to select, and to order objects and our own capacities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In evoking dread and hope of specific tangible reward--say comfort and ease--many other capacities are left untouched. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- But the doctrine does not determine what use shall be made of the capacities which exist. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
贝丝编辑