Efficacy
['efɪkəsɪ] or ['ɛfɪkəsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) capacity or power to produce a desired effect; 'concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine'.
欧文整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer.
琼整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Potency, competency, power, strength, force, efficiency.
杰西整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Efficiency, competency, virtue, agency, capability, usefulness, energy,productiveness, effectiveness
ANT:Inefficiency, inutility, ineffectiveness
黛博拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The third, those in which the efficacy of industry is either limited or uncertain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was this weapon which in the Civil War gave proof of the deadly efficacy of the breech-loading magazine gun, and its superiority to the old style military arm. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- And if prayers have efficacy, yours will benefit me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Thus taken, the influence of heredity is opposed to that of the environment, and the efficacy of the latter belittled. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- We never have any impression, that contains any power or efficacy. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- But it is from this resemblance, that the ideas of necessity, of power, and of efficacy, are derived. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The poor woman evidently believed in its efficacy; her only feeling was indignation that her cat had been chosen out from all others for a sacrifice. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- In multiplying this sort of rude produce, therefore, the efficacy of human industry is not only limited, but uncertain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It would take a strong animal to test the efficacy of his new scheme. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The very mysteriousness of such a cure made her the more confident of its efficacy. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- No cause can succeed without them: so long as you rely on the efficacy of scientific demonstration and logical proof you can hold your conventions in anybody's back parlor and have room to spare. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I can vouch for its efficacy in his case, as it removed the unnatural color in a few days, and he told me that others had tried it with equally gratifying results. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Does it fit into his more direct acquaintance so as to increase its efficacy and deepen its meaning? 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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