Specific
[spə'sɪfɪk] or [spɪ'sɪfɪk]
解释:
(noun.) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease; 'quinine is a specific for malaria'.
(adj.) stated explicitly or in detail; 'needed a specific amount' .
(adj.) (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; 'rules with specific application'; 'demands specific to the job'; 'a specific and detailed account of the accident' .
(adj.) being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides; 'quinine is highly specific for malaria'; 'a specific remedy'; 'a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements' .
(adj.) relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species; 'specific characters' .
詹妮整理--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.
(a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.
(a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
(n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.
(a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.
编辑:马丁
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Peculiar, particular, especial, characteristic.[2]. Definite, precise, specified.
n. [1]. Special medicine, sovereign remedy, infallible remedy.[2]. Unfailing agent, sure means.
贝丝编辑
例句:
- This statement needs to be rendered more specific by connecting it with the materials of school instruction, the studies which make up the curriculum. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- They fulfill their destiny in issuing, later on, into specific and perceptible acts. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Each is the specific good which it is, and that is all that can be said. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- But general also means abstract, or detached from all specific context. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It is in vain you say to them, Dear Madam, I took Podgers' specific at your orders last year, and believe in it. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- We find, in short, such evidence of the slow and scarcely sensible mutations of specific forms, as we have the right to expect. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- What the commission saw and described were the particular forms which a great human impulse had assumed at a specific date in a certain city. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Just as we come to know them better, intermediate forms flow in, and doubts as to specific limits augment. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- They are inevitable as the spirit and quality of an activity having specific consequences, not as forming an isolated realm of inner consciousness. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It sows evenly, and sows a specific quantity. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- It is called olefiant gas, and contains equal measures of hydrogen gas and carbon vapour; its specific gravity is 0. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- From first to last the fever assumed no specific form. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- It was evident that he had been summoned rather for the moral support of the stricken ladies than because of any specific aid that he could render. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The specific gravity of such gas is about one-half that of atmospheric air, and it is eight times heavier than pure hydrogen. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Both specific heat and the heat of vaporization vary with the liquid used. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
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