Instrumentality
[ɪnstrʊmen'tælɪtɪ] or [ɪnstrəmɛn'tæləti]
解释:
(noun.) an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end.
(noun.) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose.
(noun.) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; 'are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?'; 'he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement'.
校对:米利森特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
克劳斯编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. Agency, mediation, intervention.
欧内斯廷编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Agency, intervention, medium, use, employment, means
ANT:Nonintervention, spontaneity, efficacy, virtue, property, quality, force, counteragency,neutralization
贝丝编辑
例句:
- He believed without effort in the peculiar work of grace within him, and in the signs that God intended him for special instrumentality. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- That would, indeed, be a civil war of the worst description: we should rather, through the instrumentality of men of science, soften the asper ities of national hostility. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- His instrumentality appealed so strongly to her, she wished she were God, to use him as a tool. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- What mattered was the pure instrumentality of the individual. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Suddenly he had conceived the pure instrumentality of mankind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- If it is not, then when the time and place come for it to be used as a means or instrumentality, it will be in just that much handicapped. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It is the sole instrumentality of conscious, as distinct from accidental, progress. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- He had mental exercises, called himself nought, laid hold on redemption, and went on in his course of instrumentality. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Inventions and discoveries in the field of surgery relate not only to instrumentalities but processes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- And for the school these things mean equipment with the instrumentalities of cooperative or joint activity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They are as old as religion, and have been found wherever evidence of religious rites of any description have been found, as they constituted part of the instrumentalities of such rites. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The modern life of the world, however, has been replete with the resourceful expedients of the engineer, and the ingenious instrumentalities invented by him to carry out his plans. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The state furnished not only the instrumentalities of public education but also its goal. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- To which must be added his adoption of Alfred Vail's improved alphabet, and Vail's practical suggestions in respect to the recording and other instrumentalities. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- At this early date no drawings were attached to patents, and the specification dwells more on the function of the machine than the instrumentalities employed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Modern inventors have also produced with a flourish nice instrumentalities for raising water, agencies which are covered with the moss of untold centuries in China. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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