Vagueness
['vegnɪs]
解释:
(noun.) indistinctness of shape or character; 'the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner'.
(noun.) unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning; 'the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness'; 'these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey'.
哈伦校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being vague.
手打:米格尔
例句:
- Closely connected with the vagueness of men's ideas about property was the vagueness of their ideas about currency. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Miles long, and of breadth losing itself in vagueness, for all the neighbouring country crowds to see. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was full of odd, fantastic expression, of double meanings, of evasions, of suggestive vagueness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Dimly she had come down to London with Birkin, London had been a vagueness, so had the train-journey to Dover. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- But her fears seemed the uglier, thus shorn of their vagueness; and besides, she had to act, not rave. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Everything is all right--we shall go to the registrar's office-' There was a second's hush in the room, after Ursula's blithe vagueness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This vagueness must be compensated for by some a priori formula. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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