Discrimination
[dɪ,skrɪmɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ,skrɪmɪ'neʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
(noun.) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished.
手打:奥齐--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
(n.) The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart.
(n.) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
(n.) The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
(n.) That which discriminates; mark of distinction.
黛西手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Distinction.[2]. Discernment, penetration, acuteness, judgment, sagacity, insight.
柏格編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Penetration, sagacity, acuteness, nicety, shrewdness, judgment, discernment,insight, distinction
ANT:Dullness, confusedness, indiscriminateness, shortsightedness, hebetude,indiscernment
編輯:路易斯
例句/造句/用法:
- But if he makes a scientific investigation of the act, such a discrimination is the first thing he would effect. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But you seem to have the power of discrimination. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The ear is capable of marvelous discrimination and accuracy. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She once talked to me about her, with an odd mixture of discrimination, indifferenceand antipathy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- During this time Governor Denny assented to a law imposing a tax, in which no discrimination was made in favour of the estates of the Penn family. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The following questions may aid in making such discrimination. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The guests had been selected with a boldness and discrimination in which the initiated recognised the firm hand of Catherine the Great. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Before the invention of the micrometer exactitude was impossible, because the adjustment of the instrume nt depended on the discrimination of the naked eye. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- It is a lack of discrimination, a lack of criticism. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- No one ever had more ample materials for the discrimination of the species, or could have worked on them with more zeal and sagacity. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
校對:弗恩