Belief
[bɪ'liːf] or [bɪ'lif]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.
(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
錄入:卡利
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Credence, credit, confidence, trust, reliance, persuasion, FAITH.[2]. Doctrine, tenet, dogma, opinion, creed, article of faith, profession of faith.
安吉莉娜整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Assent, faith, trust, credence, avowal, assurance, admission, conviction,opinion, permission, creed, reliance, concession, confidence
ANT:Dissent, unbelief, distrust, denial, misgiving, disavowal, rejection, disbelief
錄入:李莉斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Matthew, sceptic and scoffer, had already failed to subscribe a prompt belief in that pain about the heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- If we proceed along the old path, my belief, I said, is that we shall find the answer. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Whatever he might have heard against meought he not to have suspended his belief? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- With all this, I held firm, notwithstanding, to my belief in Miss Rachel. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Regardless of the foolish belief of the peoples of the outer world, or of Holy Thern, or ebon First Born, I am not dead. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- As a general belief it is still more recent. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The effect, then, of belief is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions, and bestow on it a like influence on the passions. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- And the police haven't, nor will they, to the best of my belief. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- My knowledge of their customs lent colour to the belief that he was but being escorted to the audience chamber to have sentence passed upon him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It's my belief you hate the sight of the very river. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He was seen lighting his cigar with one, to the horror of Captain Dobbin, who, it is my belief, would have given a bank-note for the document. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I have heard that the sight of the dead has confirmed materialists in their belief. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She had as firm a belief in the sweetness and propriety of his manners as she could possibly have had if he had been Lord Chamberlain. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Abu Bekr was a man without doubts, his beliefs cut down to acts cleanly as a sharp knife cuts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- With respect to all of them, it set up a test: Where are the real objects from which these ideas and beliefs are received? 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- An interest in discovery took the place of an interest in systematizing and proving received beliefs. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It was a world of lost or faded beliefs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The required beliefs cannot be hammered in; the needed attitudes cannot be plastered on. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They wanted to form their beliefs about it at first hand, instead of through tradition. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The old beliefs, that had lasted so long, seemed better than the new. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Life covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- William James might also be cited for his defense of those beliefs that are beyond the realm of proof. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Try to judge the great beliefs that have swayed mankind by their inner logic or their empirical solidity and you stand forever, a dull pedant, apart from the interests of men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The customs and beliefs of different communities were found to diverge sharply from one another. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- They tend to act with the same controlling ideas, beliefs, and intentions, given similar circumstances. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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