Essence
['es(ə)ns] or ['ɛsns]
解释:
(noun.) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted.
沙琳编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
(n.) The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
(n.) Constituent substance.
(n.) A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
(n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
(n.) Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
(v. t.) To perfume; to scent.
格雷格整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Nature, substance, quintessence, essential part.[2]. Extract, volatile part, rectified portion.[3]. Odor, perfume, scent.[4]. Being, existence, entity.
v. a. Perfume, scent, odor.
编辑:梅根
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Being, life, entity, nature, substance
ANT:Accident, property, additament, garb, clothing, surroundings
丹尼整理
解释:
n. the inner distinctive nature of anything: the qualities which make any object what it is: a being: the extracted virtues of any drug: the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil: a perfume.—adj. Essen′tial relating to or containing the essence: necessary to the existence of a thing: indispensable or important in the highest degree: highly rectified: pure.—n. something necessary: a leading principle.—n. Essential′ity the quality of being essential: an essential part.—adv. Essen′tially.—n. Essen′tialness.
埃文编辑
例句:
- It is of the very essence, for instance, of envy to be uneasy and disquieted. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Well, if so much of unholy force can arise from below, may not an equal efflux of sacred essence descend one day from above? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Deity unquestioned, thine essence foils decay! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- And he added: So far as the central essence of this feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Heat itself, its essence, is motion and nothing else . 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The soft hair whose locks were loosened she rearranged, the damp brow she refreshed with a cool, fragrant essence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- It must therefore touch it intimately, and in its whole essence, SECUNDUM SE, TOTA, ET TOTALITER; which is the very definition of penetration. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Conformity, not transformation, is the essence of education. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- If self-denial be the essence of virtue, then it follows that the man who is naturally temperate, just, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Is not general incivility the very essence of love? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I'm inclined to think that laziness is what your old Dr. Botherem, up in Vermont, used to call the 'essence of moral evil. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- To maintain capacity for such education is the essence of morals. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- And, conversely, that which has less of truth will also have less of essence? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- They ain't Pills, or Hair-Washes, or Invigorating Nervous Essences, to be puffed in that way! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Assuming that the souls of men and women were visible essences, you could fancy the colour of Eustacia's soul to be flamelike. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- A multitude whose tendencies could be perceived, though not its essences. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- They made tinctures, essences, and syrups. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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