Axiom
['æksɪəm]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident.
达琳錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."
(a.) An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.
贾尔斯錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.[2]. Postulate, established principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.
杰夫編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:{Self-evident_truth}, aphorism, truism, apophthegm, maxim
ANT:Nonsense, absurdity, soliloquy, absurdness
布兰卡德錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a self-evident truth: a universally received principle in an art or science.—adjs. Axiomat′ic Axiomat′ical.—adv. Axiomat′ically.
校對:罗伯特
例句/造句/用法:
- It is an established axiom, that 'every bullet has its billet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- No formula can express an ultimate experience; no axiom can ever be a substitute for what really makes life worth living. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- This was not the axiom he wanted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- We owe to him the definition of a line as length without breadth, and the formulation of the axiom, Equals subtracted from equals leave equals. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It is a trite saying that history repeats itself, and certainly no axiom carries more truth than this when applied to the history of each of Edison's important inventions. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
校對:鲁本