Choice
[tʃɒɪs] or [tʃɔɪs]
解释:
(noun.) the act of choosing or selecting; 'your choice of colors was unfortunate'; 'you can take your pick'.
(noun.) the person or thing chosen or selected; 'he was my pick for mayor'.
(adj.) of superior grade; 'choice wines'; 'prime beef'; 'prize carnations'; 'quality paper'; 'select peaches' .
(adj.) appealing to refined taste; 'choice wine' .
卡梅拉整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
(n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
(n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
(n.) A sufficient number to choose among.
(n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
(n.) The best part; that which is preferable.
(superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
(superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
(superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
编辑:玛杰里
同义词及近义词：
n. Preference, election, selection, option, ALTERNATIVE.
a. [1]. Select, exquisite, precious, valuable, rare, uncommon, excellent.[2]. Frugal, careful, chary, sparing.
伊娃手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Option, adoption, selection, election, preference, alternative
ANT:Compulsion, necessity, rejection, refusal, unimportance, indifference, refuse
SYN:Select, exquisite, precious, dainty, cherished, valuable, {[ex]?}, excellent,rare
ANT:Common, ordinary, Inferior, cheap, valueless, despicable, trumpery
伊莎贝拉录入
解释:
n. act or power of choosing: the thing chosen: alternative: preference: the preferable or best part.—adj. worthy of being chosen: select: appropriate.—adjs. Choice′-drawn (Shak.) selected with care; Choice′ful (Spens.) making many choices fickle.—adv. Choice′ly with discrimination or care.—n. Choice′ness particular value: excellence: nicety.—Hobson's choice the alternative of a thing offered or nothing from Hobson a Cambridge carrier and innkeeper who insisted on lending out the horse nearest the stable door or none at all.—Make choice of to select; Take one's choice to take what one wishes.
芭比整理
例句:
- I will go and select one before the choice animals are all taken. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The next Pope elected, Clement V, was a Frenchman, the choice of King Philip of France. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- His judgment, activity, and consummate bravery, justified their choice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- So we who are democrats need not believe that the people are necessarily right in their choice: some of us are always in the minority, and not a little proud of the distinction. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- We never could agree in our choice of a profession. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But the democrats adhere to the multitude of choices because logic requires them to. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- What will fascinate us in the past will be the records of inventions, of great choices, of those alternatives on which destiny seems to hang. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I picture this philosophy as one of deliberate choices. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- My lady said so, in choicer language than mine. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He sat entertaining them with his finest compliments, and his choicest conversation; but he conveyed to them, all the time, 'No, no, no, dear ladies. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Florentine mosaics are the choicest in all the world. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- May He, who made both Jew and Christian, shower down on you his choicest blessings! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Beside the tea-cup on his table he saw, then, a blooming nosegay: a wonderful handful of the choicest and most lovely flowers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- No one supposes that our choicest productions have been produced by a single variation from the aboriginal stock. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Only the pure leaf lard, which is supposed to be the choicest fat of the hog, is cooked in these kettles. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Poets and painters have adorned it; and in its manufacture have been embodied through all ages the choicest discoveries of the chemist, the inventor and the mechanic. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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