Utility
[juːˈtɪləti] or [ju'tɪləti]
解释:
(noun.) the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility; 'the cost of utilities never decreases'; 'all the utilities were lost after the hurricane'.
(noun.) a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal; 'the price of the house included all utilities'.
(noun.) the quality of being of practical use.
(noun.) a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.
(noun.) (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice.
(adj.) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; 'a utility infielder' .
(adj.) used of beef; usable but inferior .
录入:玛丽埃塔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
(n.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
(n.) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
编辑:珀西
同义词及近义词：
n. Usefulness (in an abstract sense), advantageousness, benefit, avail, profit, service, use.
奥罗拉编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Usefulness, benefit, profit, advantage, advantageousness, service,[SeeADVANTAGE]
校对:奥利弗
例句:
- The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- McCormick, of Virginia, and Obed Hussey, of Maryland, were the men who brought the reaper to a condition of practical utility. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- So far as to the utility, which may attend any quality of the body. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Health, wealth, efficiency, sociability, utility, culture, happiness itself are only abstract terms which sum up a multitude of particulars. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The ingenuity and utility of this system are indisputable. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The utility element is found in the motives assigned for the study, the liberal element in methods of teaching. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Of these I was the eldest, and the destined successor to all his labours and utility. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Now the question is, after what manner this utility and importance operate upon us? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Perceiving of what great utility such an instrument would prove in naval and military operations, and seeing that His Serenity the Doge desired to possess it, I resolved on the 24th inst. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Natural science is recommended on the ground of its practical utility, but is taught as a special accomplishment in removal from application. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the last chapter, that between culture and utility is probably the most fundamental. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- With regard to the utility of this discovery the court would deem it a waste of time to dwell long upon this topic. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- We unavoidably lose sight of the principle of utility, just in that action of our lives in which we have the most need of it. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Public utility, however, and not revenue, was the original object of this institution. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Public utilities were in the making, and no one in particular had a keen sense of what was right or what was wrong, in the hard, practical details of their development. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
约翰娜编辑