Abstraction
[əb'strækʃ(ə)n] or [æb'strækʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples.
(noun.) the act of withdrawing or removing something.
(noun.) an abstract painting.
(noun.) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances.
(noun.) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; 'he loved her only in the abstract--not in person'.
杰德手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal.
(a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects.
(a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions.
(a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction.
(a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects.
(a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
(a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Separation, disconnection, disjunction, isolation.[2]. Preoccupation, inattention, revery, musing, muse, absence, absence of mind, brown study.[3]. Taking, abduction, seizure, appropriation, stealing, purloining, pilfering.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Separation, {[poiloining]?}, removal, appropriation, generalization,classification, reverie, absorption, inattention, absence
ANT:Addition, conjunction, union, adduction, importation, restoration, restitution,individualization, enumeration, analysis, specification, observation,attention, Abstracted,[See ABSTRACT_and_ABSTRACTION]
校對:卢埃林
例句/造句/用法:
- I beg your pardon,' said the Dodger, looking up with an air of abstraction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Mr. Mallard departed to execute his commission; and Serjeant Snubbin relapsed into abstraction until Mr. Phunky himself was introduced. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He looked at the two, less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy abstraction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But politics was a personal drama without meaning or a vague abstraction without substance. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As the years went on, she lost more and more count of the world, she seemed rapt in some glittering abstraction, almost purely unconscious. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Do what he would, he fell into such a mood of abstraction that Gowan said again, 'I am very much afraid my mother has bored you? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But when the new element requires especial attention, random reaction is the sole recourse unless abstraction is brought into play. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In this state of abstraction he found himself, the following morning, waking to the reality of a stifling September day in New York. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Fanny was too well aware of it to have anything to say; and they walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence and abstraction. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Bradley leaned his elbows on his knees, and his head upon his hands, and looked at the fire with a most intent abstraction. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Idealism creates an abstraction and then shudders at a reality which does not answer to it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Another short fit of abstraction followed, when, shaking it off, she thus attacked her companion. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- A certain peace, an abstraction possessed his soul. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There seem to be two great aims in the philosophy of Plato,--first, to realize abstractions; secondly, to connect them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- What they really are you and I know inwardly by using abstractions and living our lives. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As I have had to abstract from life in order to communicate, so you are compelled to animate my abstractions, in order to understand. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Scarcely a substance herself, she grapples to conflict with abstractions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- But once I attempt to give that inwardness expression, I must use the only weapons I have--abstractions, theories, phrases. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Abstractions are not cloaks, nor wax figures, nor walls, nor vessels, and life doesn't flow like water. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The man of science in developing his abstractions is like a manufacturer of tools who does not know who will use them nor when. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- I am not a poet; I cannot live with abstractions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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