Agency
['eɪdʒ(ə)nsɪ] or ['edʒənsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a business that serves other businesses.
(noun.) an administrative unit of government; 'the Central Intelligence Agency'; 'the Census Bureau'; 'Office of Management and Budget'; 'Tennessee Valley Authority'.
(noun.) the state of being in action or exerting power; 'the agency of providence'; 'she has free agency'.
汉尼巴尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
(n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.
(n.) The place of business of am agent.
亚伯拉罕手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Intervention, instrumentality, mediation, action, operation, force, influence, procurement.[2]. Charge, direction, management, superintendence, supervision.
艾伦錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
[See AGENT]
校對:奥菲莉娅
例句/造句/用法:
- Your allusions are lost on me sir, said Bulstrode, with white heat; the law has no hold on me either through your agency or any other. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and have this put in the evening papers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- This agency of the supreme Being we know to have been asserted by [As father Malebranche and other Cartesians. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- It will be understood that electromagnets were the ticker's actuating agency. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The use of this agency is still in its earliest youth, but it has already done so much that it is impossible to say to what a stature it may grow. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- If sound is to reach our ears, it must be through the agency of matter, such as wood, water, or air, etc. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Many hitherto unknown metals have also been discovered through the agency of the spectroscope, among which may be named caesium, rubidium, thallium, and indium. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is the agency of progress in action. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It was through its agency that the telegraph, the electric light, and many other discoveries in electricity were made and rendered possible. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The same agency may have come into play with the eggs of some of the smaller fresh-water animals. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But it lacked any agency for securing the development of its ideal as was evidenced in its falling back upon Nature. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Not only was some method required but also some positive organ, some administrative agency for carrying on the process of instruction. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- A large sulphate of copper battery was employed, which could through the agency of a train of gears give only a very slow speed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- While books and conversation can do much, these agencies are usually relied upon too exclusively. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- By the use of l inen smeared with gum they excluded all putrefactive agencies. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Other and unknown agencies probably have also played a part. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Intentional agencies--schools--and explicit material--studies--are devised. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- At such a moment this gift of despoiled Italy to the world was a noble revenge, setting in motion incalculable beneficent forces and agencies. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The instantaneous and dastardly destruction of our battleship, The Maine, with 250 of her crew, in Havana harbor, February 15, 1898, by one of these agencies, is a harrowing illustration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- For subtilty of principle, impressiveness of action, and breadth of results, there is nothing comparable with it among mechanical agencies. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- They involve physical agencies, assiduity of practice, and external results. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Ends being beyond the pupil's present grasp, other agencies have to be found to procure immediate attention to assigned tasks. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But great results require great agencies, and so great labor-saving machines, operated by armies of men, are brought into requisition, and with these the crop is both planted and reaped. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- All the larger vessels now publish a daily paper on board, the news in which has been supplied by the same agencies who feed the newspaper on land. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and ether had been placed at the service of the physician in saving life, and the revolver, guncotton, and nitroglycerine added to the agencies for slaughter. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- These agencies may be all grouped together, for the sake of brevity, under the expression of the laws of growth. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Modern inventors have also produced with a flourish nice instrumentalities for raising water, agencies which are covered with the moss of untold centuries in China. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The blaze and noise, indispensable to patriotic celebrations among all peoples, was produced a century ago in America by simple agencies. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
校對:马蒂