Character
['kærəktə] or ['kærəktɚ]
解释:
(noun.) (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes.
(noun.) the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions; 'education has for its object the formation of character'- Herbert Spencer.
(noun.) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; 'she played the part of Desdemona'.
(noun.) a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; 'requests for character references are all too often answered evasively'.
(noun.) a written symbol that is used to represent speech; 'the Greek alphabet has 24 characters'.
(noun.) a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); 'a real character'; 'a strange character'; 'a friendly eccentric'; 'the capable type'; 'a mental case'.
(noun.) good repute; 'he is a man of character'.
(verb.) engrave or inscribe characters on.
克莱德编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
(n.) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character.
(n.) The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition.
(n.) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.
(n.) Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.
(n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.
(n.) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character.
(n.) A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant.
(n.) A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character.
(n.) One of the persons of a drama or novel.
(v. t.) To engrave; to inscribe.
(v. t.) To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.
桃瑞丝整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Mark, figure, sign, emblem, letter.[2]. Constitution, quality, nature, disposition, cast, turn, bent.[3]. Person, personage, individual.[4]. Reputation, repute.
伯娜丁整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Symbol, letter, nature, type, disposition, genius, temperament, cast,estimation, repute, office, reputation, part, capacity, class, order, sort,stamp, kind, quality, species, sign, tone, mark, figure, record
ANT:Vagueness, anonymousness, nondescription, disrepute
杰西整理
解释:
n. a letter sign figure stamp or distinctive mark: a mark of any kind a symbol in writing &c.: writing generally handwriting: a secret cipher: any essential feature or peculiarity: nature: (obs.) personal appearance: the aggregate of peculiar qualities which constitutes personal or national individuality: moral qualities especially the reputation of possessing such: a formal statement of the qualities of a person who has been in one's service or employment: official position rank or status or a person who has filled such: a person noted for eccentricity: a personality as created in a play or novel (Shak. Char′act).—v.t. to engrave imprint write: to represent delineate or describe.—n. Characterisā′tion.—v.t. Char′acterise to describe by peculiar qualities: to distinguish or designate.—ns. Char′acterism; Characteris′tic that which marks or constitutes the character.—adjs. Characteris′tic -al marking or constituting the peculiar nature.—adv. Characteris′tically.—adj. Char′acterless without character or distinctive qualities.—ns. Char′acterlessness; Char′actery writing: impression: that which is charactered.—In character in harmony with the part assumed appropriate as a Character actor one who tries to represent eccentricities.
吉尔伯特校对
例句:
- But men of your character are mostly so independent. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Because, said I, his is an uncommon character, and he has resolutely kept himself outside the circle, Richard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- My existence will be simply unendurable to me, unless I do something towards clearing my character at once. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Fanny's last meal in her father's house was in character with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had been welcomed. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- No; Justinian is too keen a judge of character to mistake our Greek goose for a swan. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I have been a determined character in later life, and I suppose I was then. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Defamation of character: action for damages. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Very decided character there, sir? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- But all power of a high order depends on an understanding of the essential character, or law, of heat, light, sound, gravity, and the like. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- What character in the name of wonder did Amy choose? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Mortimer, the gardener, who wheels the Bath chair, is an army pensioner--an old Crimean man of excellent character. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- You have heard of a man of bad character, whose true name is Compeyson? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- He was a great genius, and a noble character, yet hardly capable of feeling or understanding anything external to his own theology. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- It is therefore from the influence of characters and qualities, upon those who have an intercourse with any person, that we blame or praise him. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- A pretty list indeed, said Brougham, alluding to my characters, as advertised in the newspapers by Stockdale. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- They believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I am afraid we have changed characters, Crispin. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Elliston himself is kind enough to play one of my characters, and the others he has given to his very best performers. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Typewriters for short hand characters, and for foreign languages, and for printing on record and blank books, are also among the modern developments of this art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Nor were such characters ideal. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- All the obnoxious characters of change and diversity thus attach themselves to doing while knowing is as permanent as its object. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- We shall not then be degraded from our true characters. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- And here's Kirby's Wonderful Museum,' said Mr Boffin, 'and Caulfield's Characters, and Wilson's. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Hence, the transmitted message was received on the tape in visible dots and dashes representing characters of the Morse alphabet. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Do you like characters of the Rousseau order, Caroline? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
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