Imperative
[ɪm'perətɪv] or [ɪm'pɛrətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) some duty that is essential and urgent.
(adj.) requiring attention or action; 'as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative'; 'requests that grew more and more imperative' .
(adj.) relating to verbs in the imperative mood .
奥古斯都手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.
(a.) Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
(a.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.
(n.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
編輯:娜塔莎
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Commanding, authoritative, peremptory.[2]. Binding, obligatory.
編輯:梅布尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Urgent, irresistible, dictatorial, inexorable, peremptorily, compulsory,obligatory
ANT:Indulgent, lenient, mild, entreative, supplicatory, optional, discretional
編輯:斯坦利
解釋/意思:
adj. expressive of command: authoritative: peremptory: obligatory.—adv. Imper′atively.—Imperative mood the form of a verb expressing command or advice; Categorical imperative (see under Category).
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例句/造句/用法:
- The movements of the enemy may justify, or even make it your imperative duty, to cut loose from your base, and strike for the interior to aid Sherman. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The need for labour upon the plantations of the West Indies and the south was imperative. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For if it were, its claims would be incomparable, imperative. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- This imperative hint disturbed George a good deal. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It seems to have been a fashion with constitution planners in the eighteenth century rather than a reasonable imperative. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They may possibly clash with more imperative considerations. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Two or three times, the matter in hand became so knotty, that the jackal found it imperative on him to get up, and steep his towels anew. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- For safe and expeditious operation of trains, where the schedule is only one and one-half minutes, it was imperative that grade crossings should be avoided. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I beg your parding, young man,' demanded Mrs. Raddle, in a louder and more imperative tone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This ill-timed defiance might have procured for De Bracy a volley of arrows, but for the hasty and imperative interference of the outlaw Chief. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Dorset, as if in obedience to Lily's imperative bidding, had actually returned in time for a late dinner on the yacht. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He saw that the rules of the service were imperative. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Custom must bow to imperative necessity, they thought; and they decided that, blood feud or no blood feud, Muhammad must die. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Prompt action on our part was imperative. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Come, said the officer who was guarding me back to Shador; my orders are imperative; there is to be no delay. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- A new age was beginning with new and greater imperatives, and these nineteenth-century statesmen were but pretending to control events. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
編輯:塔比瑟