Diligence
['dɪlɪdʒ(ə)ns] or ['dɪlɪdʒəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation.
(noun.) persevering determination to perform a task; 'his diligence won him quick promotions'; 'frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues'.
整理:华莱士--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.
(n.) Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.
(n.) Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.
(n.) A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.
校對:帕蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Assiduity (in some specific pursuit), assiduousness, activity, sedulousness, perseverance, INDUSTRY, steady application (to some pursuit that one likes).
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry
ANT:Indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness,inertness, idleness
校對:克劳斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Upon this history, therefore, mechanical and illiberal as it may seem (all fineness and daintiness set aside), the greatest diligence must be bestowed. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- At all events, Miss Ophelia knew of nothing else to do; and, therefore, applied her mind to her heathen with the best diligence she could command. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The native faculties of his mind qualified him to penetrate into every science: and his unremitted diligence left no field of knowledge unexplored. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Have they contributed to encourage the diligence, and to improve the abilities, of the teachers? 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The usual diligence and order of the Counting-house at the Works were overthrown. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In the case of Lincoln, for example, we find that in his youth he was as distinguishe d by diligence in study as by physical stature and prowess. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I never saw a busier person than she seemed to be; yet it was difficult to say what she did: or rather, to discover any result of her diligence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- At a bureau, the diligence stopped, and the passengers alighted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There will not be the smallest occasion for your coming to town again; therefore stay quiet at Longbourn, and depend on my diligence and care. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Also fearing for the worst, we telegraphed for a large number of seats in the diligence for Damascus, and horses for the ruins of Baalbec. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Let us, then, up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- By the by'; he laid down his knife and fork, which he had been using with great diligence, and began feeling in his pockets; 'I have a letter for you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The distribution of these epices, too, is according to the diligence of the judges. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Several different expedients, however, may be fallen upon, which will effectually blunt the edge of all those incitements to diligence. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- At first I had neglected them; but now that I was able to decypher the characters in which they were written, I began to study them with diligence. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
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