Formation
[fɔː'meɪʃ(ə)n] or [fɔr'meʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of fabricating something in a particular shape.
(noun.) creation by mental activity; 'the formation of sentences'; 'the formation of memories'.
(noun.) a particular spatial arrangement.
(noun.) an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; 'a defensive formation'; 'a formation of planes'.
(noun.) natural process that causes something to form; 'the formation of gas in the intestine'; 'the formation of crystals'; 'the formation of pseudopods'.
手打:苏珊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.
(n.) The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.
(n.) A substance formed or deposited.
(n.) Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.
(n.) A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.
(n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.
整理:塞尔瓦托
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Creation, production.
整理:诺拉
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Shape, structure, construction
ANT:Deformity, malformation, dislocation, distortion
整理:凯瑟琳
例句/造句/用法:
- The results of th is would be the formation of a new species. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Several cases are on record of the same species presenting varieties in the upper and lower parts of the same formation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Plasticity or the power to learn from experience means the formation of habits. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It was evident that subsequen tly to the formation of the basalt that portion of the coast containing the white stratum had been elevated. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The amount of organic change, as Pictet has remarked, is not the same in each successive so-called formation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The latter attempted to rush in and break up the formation, but it was like stopping a buzz saw with the bare hand. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Moreover, between each successive formation we have, in the opinion of most geologists, blank periods of enormous length. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Moreover, the formation is not only a formation of native activities, but it takes place through them. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Next follow those that are constructed for twilight; and, last of all, those destined for total darkness, and whose formation is quite peculiar. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The formation of mind is wholly a matter of the presentation of the proper educational materials. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- There was a formation of surface going on around her on an amazing scale, and it had not a flaw of courage or honest free speech in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But intellectual growth means constant expansion of horizons and consequent formation of new purposes and new responses. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Lyell has made similar observations on some of the later tertiary formations. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Yet if we compare any but the most closely related formations, all the species will be found to have undergone some change. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- In reference to the last (volcanic ash combined with lime and r ubble to form a cement) Vitruvius writes in a way that indicates a discriminating knowledge of geological formations. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Hence, it is probable that in some parts of the world whole formations have been completely denuded, with not a wreck left behind. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Evidently he was a chieftain, for in certain marching formations among the green men a chieftain brings up the extreme rear of the column. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The three passed and then came nine more, flying much higher in the minute, pointed formations of threes, threes and threes. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The horizontal lines may represent successive geological formations, and all the forms beneath the uppermost line may be considered as extinct. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It would seem that each separate formation, like the whole pile of formations in any country, has generally been intermittent in its accumulation. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- None of these massed infantry formations was flexible enough to stand a flank or rear attack. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
錄入:斯蒂芬妮