Fundamental
[fʌndə'ment(ə)l] or [,fʌndə'mɛntl]
解释:
(noun.) the lowest tone of a harmonic series.
(noun.) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business; 'fundamentals include a company's growth, revenues, earnings, management, and capital structure'.
(adj.) being or involving basic facts or principles; 'the fundamental laws of the universe'; 'a fundamental incomatibility between them'; 'these rudimentary truths'; 'underlying principles' .
(adj.) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something; 'the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred'; 'the book underwent fundamental changes'; 'committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance'; 'profound social changes' .
编辑:马丁--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom.
(n.) A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith.
录入:斯科特
同义词及近义词：
a. Essential, primary, important, indispensable, radical, constitutional, organic.
n. Leading principle, essential part.
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同义词及反义词：
SYN:Primary, important, indispensable, essential
ANT:Secondary, unimportant, adventitious, ascititious, nonessential
黛博拉编辑
解释:
adj. essential basal primary: important.—n. that which serves as a groundwork: an essential.—ns. Fund′ament the lower part or seat of the body; Fundamental′ity.—adv. Fundament′ally.
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例句:
- Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- These fundamental principles have since been adopted and incorporated in their laws by all the nations of the earth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- They have bee n recognized as fundamental from antiquity. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- It contains as fundamental truths as have been uttered about education in conjunction with a curious twist. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The things which are socially most fundamental, that is, which have to do with the experiences in which the widest groups share, are the essentials. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The 'base,' or 'fundamental number, which has 1/3 added to it' (1 and 1/3) = 4/3 or a musical fourth. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- This, notwithstanding it was a fundamental error, was pardoned, and excited an expression of loud applause from the gallery auditors. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Now it will be evident that most of these fundamental statements are very questionable statements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- At present men are accustomed to eulogize intelligence and reason in general terms; their fundamental importance is urged. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The fundamental laws which he gives are not supposed to change with time and circumstances. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- If the string is made to vibrate in two parts, it gives forth two notes, the fundamental, and a note one octave higher than the fundamental; this is called the first overtone. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- This is manufactured under the fundamental patents of Dudley, Nos. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Let us ape Roger Bacon in his prophetic mood, and set down what we believe will be the broad fundamentals of the coming world state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Whoever is removing the stunting environments of our occupations is doing the fundamentals of reform. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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