Derive
[dɪ'raɪv]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state.
(verb.) come from; 'The present name derives from an older form'.
(verb.) obtain; 'derive pleasure from one's garden'.
(verb.) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; 'She was descended from an old Italian noble family'; 'he comes from humble origins'.
乔治娜手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.
(v. t.) To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.
(v. t.) To trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the Anglo-Saxon.
(v. t.) To obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.
(v. i.) To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
整理:辛克莱
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Draw, receive, obtain, get.[2]. Deduce, trace.
安編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Deduce, trace, follow, track, draw, resolve
ANT:Misdeduce, misattribute, mistrace
伊妮德編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to draw from as water from a river; to take or receive from a source or origin: to infer: (ety.) to trace a word to its root.—adj. Derīv′able.—adv. Derīv′ably.—adj. Der′ivate derived.—n. a derivative.—n. Derivā′tion act of deriving: a drawing off or from: the tracing of a word to its original root: that which is derived: descent or evolution of man or animals.—adj. Derivā′tional.—n. Derivā′tionist.—adj. Deriv′ative derived or taken from something else: not radical or original.—n. that which is derived: a word formed from another word.—adv. Deriv′atively.
錄入:玛格
例句/造句/用法:
- This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- They are the work of servants and labourers who derive the principal part of their subsistence from some other employment. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Then from whence, my friends, in a human point of view, do we derive the strength that is necessary to our limbs? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- From these two traits we derive our standard. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The French, in the beginning of the last war, did not derive so much advantage from this expedient as to compensate the loss of the fashion. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The sovereign, like, any other owner of stock, may derive a revenue from it, either by employing it himself, or by lending it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- And it means nothing to thee to be hunted then like a beast after this thing from which we derive no profit? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Adverting to other advantages derived from railway locomotion, Mr. Stephenson noticed the comparative safety of that mode of travelling. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- A fit of the gout produces a long train of passions, as grief, hope, fear; but is not derived immediately from any affection or idea. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The whole system, therefore, is entirely incomprehensible, and yet is derived from principles as natural as any of these above-explained. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- During the convalescence of animals, great benefit is derived from almost any change in their habits of life. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The trade itself has probably derived its name from it, the people of such countries being the carriers to other countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have always thought that Machiavelli derives his bad name from a too transparent honesty. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is in the older and more characteristic English tradition from which the Declaration of Independence derives. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It is the first act he notices, and he clearly derives pleasure from it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- This explanation derives a certain plausibility from the circumstance that 8000 is the ancient number of the Spartan citizens (Herod. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Whoever derives his revenue from a fund which is his own, must draw it either from his labour, from his stock, or from his land. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I asked, terrified at the unexpected sound, and incapable now of deriving from any occurrence a hope of aid. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Here Bella, deriving no comfort from her charming bonnet and her elegant dress, burst into tears. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Fanny's spirits lived on it half the morning, deriving some accession of pleasure from its writer being himself to go away. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Instances of people living by one employment, and, at the same time, deriving some little advantage from another, occur chiefly in pour countries. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She was quite single and by herself, deriving from nobody. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To be deriving support from the commendations of Mrs. Fraser! 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
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