Expansive
[ɪk'spænsɪv;ek-] or [ɪk'spænsɪv]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) friendly and open and willing to talk; 'wine made the guest expansive' .
(adj.) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur .
(adj.) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; 'Expansive materials'; 'the expansive force of fire' .
(adj.) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; 'an expansive lifestyle'; 'in the grand manner'; 'collecting on a grand scale'; 'heroic undertakings' .
布莱尔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
錄入:威廉姆斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Diffusive.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Poetical, expansive, faithful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I am overwhelming you with money--in my expansive intentions--if you only knew it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the Lenair and Hugon system the expansive force of the exploded gas was used directly upon the piston, and through this upon the other moving parts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It follows from this law that the density and tension, and therefore the expansive force of a gas, are proportional to the compressing force to which it is subjected. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This accomplished, we arrive at the definition: Heat is a motion, expansive, restrained, and acting in its strife upon the smaller particles of bodies. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- With Mrs. Bretton she was docile and reliant, but not expansive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There are two principal ways in which it may be utilized; one is to employ its enormous expansive force to produce mechanical power, and the other is as a refrigerant. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- So he was, in a certain point of view--in his expansive intentions. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In short, he demonstrated for the first time by a practical and efficient engine that the expansive force of steam could be used to drive all ordinary machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Street proposed to drive up the piston by the expansive force of a heated gas, and anticipated many modern ideas. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The most conspicuous effect of the expansive power of freezing water is seen in rocky or mountainous regions (Fig. 21). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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