Spencer
['spensə] or ['spɛnsɚ]
解释:
(noun.) English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903).
编辑:齐克--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
(n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
埃塞雷德编辑
解释:
n. (in ships and barques) a fore-and-aft sail abaft the fore and main masts.
n. a short over-jacket worn by men or women named after Earl Spencer (1782-1845).
鲍里斯校对
例句:
- She is a little girl, in a spencer, with a round face and curly flaxen hair. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The Spencer rifle was one of the early ones that came into use. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- His father had been a miller in the small Massachusetts town of Spencer, where Elias was born in 1819. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Later, the Henry or Winchester breech-loading rifle and the Spencer magazine gun were introduced and did good service. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In 1839 Spencer described an electrotype process and carried the date of his operations back to September, 1837. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Then in 1838, Spencer applied these principles in making casts, and Jacobi in Russia shortly after electro-gilded a dome of a cathedral in St. Petersburg. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- If you want to see this faith in all its na?veté go into those quaint rationalist circles where Herbert Spencer's ghost announces the laws of life, with only a few inessential details omitted. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- One of the successful applications of Electro-Metallurgy is founded on the original application of it by Mr. Spencer. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Herbert Spencer, inquiring what knowledge is of most worth, concluded that from all points of view scientific knowledge is most valuable. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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