Creation
[kriː'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [krɪ'eʃən]
解释:
(noun.) (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence.
(noun.) the human act of creating.
(noun.) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone.
(noun.) the event that occurred at the beginning of something; 'from its creation the plan was doomed to failure'.
海丝特编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
(n.) That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.
(n.) The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
巴顿整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Invention, origination.[2]. Universe, cosmos.[3]. Appointment, constitution, nomination.
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例句:
- Once it was so; now is man lord of the creation? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- And besides, look at elder-flowers and bluebells--they are a sign that pure creation takes place--even the butterfly. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Always, also, it may be well to bear in mind that by the word 'creation' the zoologist means 'a process he knows not what. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Nature grows old, and shakes in her decaying limbs,--creation has become bankrupt! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Creation was not there. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Each watch had its own individuality as a separate creation, and only the privileged few were able to carry them. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Now the motion of a body has much the same effect as its creation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Perish the daring thought that any smaller creation should come between! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He divided his story into six epochs to square with the six days of the Creation story. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Creation, annihilation, motion, reason, volition; all these may arise from one another, or from any other object we can imagine. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- British science was largely the creation of Englishmen and Scotchmen[458] working outside the ordinary centres of erudition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The obvious novelties of machinery and locomotion, phonographs and yellow journalism slake the American thirst for creation pretty thoroughly. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- See here, sir, at present I am worshipping a creature of my own creation, with the face of that picture, but with the attributes of fancy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- But why, on the theory of creation, they should not have been created there, it would be very difficult to explain. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- How inexplicable are the cases of serial homologies on the ordinary view of creation! 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The imitative artist will be in a brilliant state of intelligence about his own creations? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- His creations are not tested by rule and measure; they are only appearances. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- For consistency, too, is the growth of time; and some of the greatest creations of the human mind have been wanting in unity. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- I delighted in investigating the facts relative to the actual world; she busied herself in following the a?rial creations of the poets. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- In some respects this process seems almost more wonderful than the original Stereoscope, for it gives solid form and apparent substantiality to the mere creations of the artist's pencil. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Inventions, then, are not creations, but the evolution of man-made contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Whatever is built by man for man's occupation, must, like natural creations, fulfil the intention of its existence, or soon perish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
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