Remote
[rɪ'məʊt] or [rɪ'mot]
解释:
(superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
(superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
(superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
(superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
(superl.) Separate; abstracted.
(superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
(superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
(superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
博比编辑
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Far, distant, far off, not near, not nigh.[2]. Alien, foreign, unallied, separated, unconnected.[3]. Secluded, sequestered, removed.
黛娜编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Distant, indirect, unconnected, unrelated, foreign, alien, heterogeneous,separate, contingent
ANT:Near, close, direct, connected, related, homogeneous, immediate, proximate,essential, present, pressing, urgent, actual
编辑:维姬
解释:
adj. moved back to a distance in time or place: far: distant: primary as a cause: not agreeing: not nearly related.—adv. Remote′ly.—ns. Remote′ness; Remō′tion (Shak.) act of removing: remoteness.
手打:兰斯洛特
例句:
- Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- It is true Carthagena is in America, but as remote from the northern colonies as if it had been in Europe. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Things remote in space and time affect the issue of our actions quite as much as things which we can smell and handle. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- But herein lies the difference betwixt them: The same good, when near, will cause a violent passion, which, when remote, produces only a calm one. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Archeologists have deprived the Greeks of this gift, and carried back its origin to remoter ages and localities. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- An old man came into the remoter light of the fire from the direction of the homestead. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- If not remote enough, I can go remoter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- To the east, in Mesopotamia, the British, using Indian troops chiefly, made a still remoter flank attack upon the Central Powers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It is true something is known of remoter times. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Roumania and Italy, both Latin in tradition, both nominally allies of Germany, pursued remoter and deeper schemes in common. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Yet in her remoter soul, she knew as well as the adults knew: perhaps better. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Within a few minutes, it was heard in the remotest room in the College. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Moreover, the most delicate notes of a violin can be heard in the remotest corners of a concert hall, when not the slightest motion of the air can be seen or felt. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Sir Leicester's cousins, in the remotest degree, are so many murders in the respect that they will out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In our modern languages they are named after the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, which from the remotest times were personified and worshiped. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Here I am,' said the editor, from the remotest end of the room; far beyond all hope of food, unless something was done for him by the hostess. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- She cannot afford, and he cannot afford, the remotest chance of another separation from a friend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- In the active superintendence of this young person, Judy Smallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
康拉德编辑