Exact
[ɪg'zækt;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zækt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; 'an exact mind'; 'an exact copy'; 'hit the exact center of the target' .
贝妮塔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.
(a.) Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.
(a.) Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
(a.) To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.
(v. i.) To practice exaction.
巴顿整理
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Strict, scrupulous, methodical, punctual, nice, critical, upright, honest.[2]. Accurate, precise, literal, correct, true.
v. a. [1]. Extort, require authoritatively.[2]. Claim, demand.
约翰校對
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ACCURATE]
編輯:莉齐
解釋/意思:
v.t. to force from: to compel full payment of: to make great demands or to demand urgently: to extort: to inflict.—v.i. to practice extortion.—adj. precise: careful: punctual: true: certain or demonstrable.—p.adj. Exact′ing compelling full payment of: unreasonable in making demands.—ns. Exac′tion act of exacting or demanding strictly: an oppressive demand: that which is exacted as excessive work or tribute; Exact′itude exactness: correctness.—adv. Exact′ly.—ns. Exact′ment; Exact′ness quality of being exact: accuracy; Exact′or -er one who exacts: an extortioner: one who claims rights often too strictly:—fem. Exact′ress.—Exact sciences the mathematical sciences of which the results are demonstrable.
手打:苏珊
例句/造句/用法:
- Nothing could be more precise, exact, and orderly than Greenleaf. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Those were the exact words she used--taken down in my diary the moment I got home. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is much shorter, and probably not quite so exact as that of the French taxes. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Capitation taxes are levied at little expense; and, where they are rigorously exacted, afford a very sure revenue to the state. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- They levied taxes over great areas; they exacted indemnities for real or fancied opposition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Indeed, it demanded from him a constant attention, and a quickness of eye and hand, very like that exacted by wicket-keeping. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But the sum he exacted as a fee for my apprenticeship displeased my father, and I was taken home again. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The curse of Ate is on thee, they cry pitifully, nor will the goddess be satisfied until she has exacted her due penalty for neglect of the Olympians. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They are not very exacting, after all. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- They took many things for granted that now we know need to be made the subject of the most exacting scientific study and the most careful adjustment. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting--Bird, be quiet! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- If mine exacts its pains and penalties all round, so must hers, I suppose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I foresee, in spite of the penalties which it exacts from me, that I shall have to return to the opium for the hundredth time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- My sister, I suppose, exacts this care. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Philosophy is thinking what the known demands of us--what responsive attitude it exacts. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
手打:诺娜