Extreme
[ɪk'striːm;ek-] or [ɪk'strim]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the furthest or highest degree of something; 'he carried it to extremes'.
(adj.) most distant in any direction; 'the extreme edge of town' .
(adj.) of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; 'extreme cold'; 'extreme caution'; 'extreme pleasure'; 'utmost contempt'; 'to the utmost degree'; 'in the uttermost distress' .
(adj.) far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; 'an extreme example'; 'extreme temperatures'; 'extreme danger' .
(adj.) beyond a norm in views or actions; 'an extreme conservative'; 'an extreme liberal'; 'extreme views on integration'; 'extreme opinions' .
校對:鲁本--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
(a.) Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
(a.) The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.
(a.) Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
(a.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
(n.) The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
(n.) Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.
(n.) An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.
(n.) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
(n.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
整理:罗德尼
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Outermost, utmost, farthest, uttermost, most distant, most remote.[2]. Greatest, highest, of the highest degree, of the rarest kind.[3]. Last, final, ultimate.
n. End, extremity.
欧内斯廷編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Terminal, final, remote, utmost, farthest, {[ln*t]?}, extravagant, immoderate,most_violent, distant, ultimate
ANT:Initial, primal, moderate, judicious
編輯:尼特
解釋/意思:
adj. outermost: most remote: last: highest in degree: greatest: excessive: most violent: most urgent: stringent.—n. the utmost point or verge: end: utmost or highest limit or degree: great necessity.—adv. Extrēme′ly.—ns. Extrē′mism; Extrē′mist.—adj. Extrem′ital.—n. Extrem′ity the utmost limit: the highest degree: greatest necessity or distress: (pl.) the hands and feet.—Extreme unction (see Unction).—Go to extremes to go too far: to use extreme measures.—In extremis (L.) at the point of death; In the extreme in the last highest degree: extremely; The last extremity the utmost pitch of misfortune: death.
艾比校對
例句/造句/用法:
- It was generally believed that there would be a flurry; that some of the extreme Southern States would go so far as to pass ordinances of secession. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In the most extreme agitation I hurried after the surgeon and brought him with me in my carriage. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- On the extreme right, however, his reserve brigade carried the enemy's works twice, and was twice driven therefrom by infantry. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Carr's division was deployed on our right, Lawler's brigade forming his extreme right and reaching through these woods to the river above. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Next to McClernand came Prentiss with a raw division, and on the extreme left, Stuart with one brigade of Sherman's division. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Of course, my fair readers would not have me guilty of such extreme ill-breeding as to differ in opinion from a noble duke! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The voice of the submissive man who had spoken, was flat and tame in its extreme submission. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The shoes remain in these vulcanizers from six to seven hours, subjected to extreme heat. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- A land of money-worship, a land of noisy steam-engines, a land of poverty and wealth—extremes in both cases. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- In the summer the water cools the region; in the winter, on the contrary, the water heats the region, and hence extremes of temperature are practically unknown. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In seeking this measure, we have to avoid two extremes. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Nature has proceeded with caution in this came, and seems to have carefully avoided the inconveniences of two extremes. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- From these two extremes, therefore, the game began to work toward the great middle classes. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Meantime Edison had secured his pass over the Grand Trunk Railroad, and spent four days and nights on the journey, suffering extremes of cold and hunger. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There stood the two children representatives of the two extremes of society. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And was not Dorset, to whom his glance had passed by a natural transition, too jerkily wavering between the same extremes? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He is always in extremes, perpetually in the superlative degree. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mr. Thesiger never goes into extremes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I listened to this discourse with the extremest agony. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I motioned to him to take up the letter, while I walked up and down the room in the extremest agitation. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
手打:利奥波德