Enlightenment
[ɪn'laɪt(ə)nm(ə)nt;en-] or [ɪn'laɪtnmənt]
解释:
(noun.) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge.
(noun.) a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine; 'the Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms'.
弗里达编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
安迪编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. Instruction, illumination.
录入:劳伦斯
例句:
- But the old teachers are all dead, or gone elsewhere; and no enlightenment is to be hoped for from that quarter. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- However, Time and the progress of modern enlightenment put things right; and the misalliance passed muster very well. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Why not take the persons who have gone along with me, so far, up into those regions of superior enlightenment in which I sit myself? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Men move more swiftly and surely to the realization of their ends, but their ends too largely remain what they were prior to scientific enlightenment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- No enlightenment,' resumed Eugene, after certain minutes of silence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The latter is a direct guide to action; the former operates indirectly through the enlightenment it supplies as to ends and means. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Neither does the improvement of the human race consist merely in the increase of the bones and flesh, but in the growth and enlightenment of the mind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- The enlightenment has been painfully forced upon me, and the discovery is not mine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
整理:史黛丝