Supplement
['sʌplɪm(ə)nt] or ['sʌplɪmənt]
解释:
(noun.) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency).
(verb.) add as a supplement to what seems insufficient; 'supplement your diet'.
(verb.) serve as a supplement to; 'Vitamins supplemented his meager diet'.
艾莉森编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
(v. t.) That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.
(v. t.) The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180¡; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
(v. t.) To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
欧内斯特整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Addition (to supply something wanting), appendix, postscript, continuation, CODICIL.[2]. Counterpart, correlative, complement.
v. a. Supply, add to.
约翰校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Addition, appendix,[See SUPERHUMAN]
录入:佩内洛普
解释:
n. that which supplies or fills up: any addition by which defects are supplied: the quantity by which an angle or an arc falls short of 180?or a semicircle.—v.t. Supplement′ to supply or fill up: to add to.—adjs. Supplemen′tal Supplement′ary added to supply what is wanting: additional.—adv. Supplement′arily.—ns. Supplementā′tion; Supplement′er.—v.t. Supplēte′ to supplement.—adjs. Supp′lētive Supp′lētory supplemental.—n. a supplement.
整理:薇尔玛
例句:
- We can compare notes afterwards, and each will supplement the other. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The date of the reading is not at hand, but it is supposed to be slightly prior to May 13, 1882, on which date it was printed in the _Scientific American Supplement_. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Child-study, psychology, and a knowledge of social environment supplement the personal acquaintance gained by the teacher. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- I had charge of the few wagons allotted to the 4th infantry and of the pack train to supplement them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- In all essential features, except size and capacity, it is a duplicate of the one in the Bronx, of which it is a supplement. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- She was not, however, without purveyors of information ready to supplement her deficiencies. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- For many reasons wireless telephony can never take the place of wire systems, but it may be expected to supplement them in a useful manner. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- From Bridgeport, a short distance farther east, the river supplements the road. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The hunters of the third and last stage of the later Pal?olithic Age appear to have supplemented a diminishing food supply by fishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Among the fibers employed in rope making that of the hemp plant long held the supremacy, though in recent years it has been largely supplemented by other and stronger fibers. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- But the nutritive foods should be wisely supplemented by such foods as fruits, whose real value is one of indirect rather then direct service. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Harvesters for grass and grain have been supplemented by Corn, Cotton, Potato and Flax Harvesters. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Flax, wool, silk, and cotton have been supplemented with the fibres of metal, of glass, of cocoanut, pine needles, ramie, wood-pulp, and of many other plants, leaves and grasses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The argument, as in the Phaedo and Gorgias, is supplemented by the vision of a future life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Supplementing the story of Mr. Andrews is that of Lieut. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could offer an opinion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
埃尔伯特编辑