Doubt
[daʊt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something; 'the dubiousness of his claim'; 'there is no question about the validity of the enterprise'.
(noun.) the state of being unsure of something.
(verb.) consider unlikely or have doubts about; 'I doubt that she will accept his proposal of marriage'.
(verb.) lack confidence in or have doubts about; 'I doubt these reports'; 'I suspect her true motives'; 'she distrusts her stepmother'.
校對:托妮--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
(v. i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
(v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
(v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
(v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright.
(v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
(v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.
(v. i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
(v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.
达米安校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Hesitate, waver, be doubtful, be in suspense, be undetermined, entertain doubts, be in a state of uncertainty, not know what to think.[2]. [Rare.] Suspect, fancy, apprehend.
v. a. [1]. Question, hesitate to believe, consider questionable, have doubts about.[2]. Distrust, suspect, not confide in.
n. [1]. Indecision, hesitation, hesitancy, irresolution, uncertainty, suspense, misgiving.[2]. Suspicion, distrust, mistrust.
校對:马特
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Dubiousness, dubitation, scruple, hesitation, suspense, distrust, suspicion,perplexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, difficulty, indecision
ANT:Certainty, clearness, precision, determination, decision, conviction,satisfaction
SYN:Dubitate, hesitate, vacillate, waver, demur
ANT:Decide, determine, resolve, assent
編輯:米兰达
解釋/意思:
n. uncertainty of mind: suspicion: fear: a thing doubted or questioned.—adj. Doubt′able.—n. Doub′ter.—adj. Doubt′ful full of doubt: undetermined: not clear: not secure: suspicious: not confident.—adv. Doubt′fully.—n. Doubt′fulness.—p.adj. Doubt′ing that doubts undecided.—advs. Doubt′ingly; Doubt′less without doubt: certainly; Doubt′lessly.
v.i. to waver in opinion: to be uncertain: to hesitate: to suspect: to believe with fear or hesitation: (Scot.) to think even without the sense of hesitation.—v.t. to hold in doubt: to distrust.—p.adj. Doubt′ed (Spens.) questioned: feared redoubted.
校對:内尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, said Estella, and of course if it ceased to beat I should cease to be. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- If you doubt that in the least degree, I will never write it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He is no doubt born with an appetite--probably, when he is in a safer state of health, he has an excellent appetite. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Yes, without doubt. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- She drew in her breath sharply as one whose doubts are resolved. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- He is leaving the Church on account of his opinions--his doubts would do him no good at Oxford. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- To-morrow will see all my doubts in a fair way of being cleared up, sooner or later. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And she surveyed her position, and its hopes, doubts, and chances. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- But Dobbin was of too simple and generous a nature to have any doubts about Amelia. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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.
- Tis an old remedy, said Clym distrustfully, and I have doubts about it. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I had never doubted that the Moonstone had found its way into Mr. Luker's hands, at the time Mr. Murthwaite alluded to. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I think, if they bring me out to be hanged to-morrow, as is much to be doubted they may, I will try its weight upon the finisher of the sentence. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Had you doubted it, then? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I doubted if her mind was in a fit condition to take in what I had said to her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But they were strangers to our house; and Penelope doubted, in Rosanna's present state, whether strangers might not do her more harm than good. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I only doubted whether or not I should endeavour to see Idris again, before I departed. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Seeing me still standing at the place where we had parted, he stopped, as if doubting whether I might not wish to speak to him again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- You must not deceive yourself into doubting the reality of my words--my fixed intention and resolve. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- By these and other experiments this doubting disciple confi rmed Hutton's theory, and became one of the great founders of experim ental geology. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I got through some jargon to the effect that I took the liberty of doubting that. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Marianne was quite angry with her for doubting it. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The mother looked up at him with sudden, dark interrogation, as if doubting his sincerity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Elinor tried to make a civil answer, though doubting her own success. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
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