Adherent
[əd'hɪər(ə)nt] or [əd'hɪrənt]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.
(a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
(a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
(n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.
(n.) That which adheres; an appendage.
整理:莎丽
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Adhering, sticking, clinging.
n. Follower, partisan, disciple, sectary, retainer, votary, supporter, dependant, vassal.
康拉德編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Follower, supporter
ANT:Denial, protestation, negation, contradiction, rejection
校對:伍德罗
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
杰夫編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- But it is full of indignation to-night after undergoing the ordeal of consigning to the tomb the remains of a faithful, a zealous, a devoted adherent. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Adherent to his own religion (in him was not the stuff of which is made the facile apostate), he freely left me my pure faith. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He returns, in fine, to punish as a rebel every adherent of his brother Prince John. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Dr. Sprague, the rugged and weighty, was, as every one had foreseen, an adherent of Mr. Farebrother. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In 277 the reigning monarch had him crucified and his body, for some unknown reason, flayed, and there began a fierce persecution of his adherents. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The place had no other adherents. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- During the progress of the pestilence he had entered upon various schemes, by which to acquire adherents and power. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Each antagonist was weakened by moderate adherents who did not want to go too far. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Their successors have spread throughout the whole world, and number to-day some thirty or forty million of adherents. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- None of the gre at writers of Europe, he asserts, have been the adherents of the traditional faith. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If they did not make very many converts, at least they made sceptics among the adherents of the older faiths. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Ammonites and Moabites became adherents. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The ministry that made the act, and all their adherents, call for vengeance. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
校對:马奇