Instance
['ɪnst(ə)ns] or ['ɪnstəns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
(n.) That which is instant or urgent; motive.
(n.) Occasion; order of occurrence.
(n.) That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
(n.) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
(v. t.) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
(v. i.) To give an example.
约瑟芬校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Solicitation, request, urgency, prompting, importunity, instigation, incitement.[2]. Example, exemplification, illustration, case in point.[3]. Time, occasion, occurrence.
v. a. Mention as an instance, bring forward as an example.
布伦特校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Entreaty, request, prompting, persuasion, example, solicitation, case,illustration, exemplification, occurrence, point, precedence
ANT:Dissuasion, deprecation, warning, rule, statement, principle,misexemplification
編輯:莉齐
解釋/意思:
n. quality of being urgent: solicitation: occurrence: occasion: example: (Shak.) evidence proof.—v.t. to mention as an example.—n. In′stancy insistency.—adj. Instan′tial (rare).—At the instance of at the motion or solicitation of; For instance to take as an example.
手打:罗纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- For instance, if he took his supper after a hard day, to the Dead March in Saul, his food might be likely to sit heavy on him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I am also to take it as a matter of fact that the proposal to withdraw from the engagement came, in the first instance, from YOU? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Permit me to mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In connection with the adoption of this lubricating system there occurred another instance of his knowledge of materials and intuitive insight into the nature of things. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He obtruded himself upon us in the first instance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- My footman was at that instance setting off for my sister and Dr. Bain: and my good housekeeper was in tears. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In the present instance, a worse feeling than either of these actuated the leader. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Laughing and pressing her arm, he retorted: 'But still, again for instance; would you exercise that power? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The enemy had not dared to come out of his line at any point to follow up his advantage, except in the single instance of his attack on Barlow. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Numerous instances could be given. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Such instances save us from utter despair of our kind. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- These were instances of friendship for which any man might reasonably feel most grateful. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- When this date approaches bands of natives set out from their primitive homes and go, in many instances, hundreds of miles into the forest lowlands. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Many similar instances could be given. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- It must, however, be admitted that in many instances we cannot conjecture whether it was instinct or structure which first varied. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Instances might be multiplied of this easily gained and unconscious popularity. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I have providentially been the means of removing him from several houses: though in one or two instances I did not arrive in time. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The device is so arranged that the air current is caused to take either direction through the tube; and in some instances gravity may be used to assist a vacuum formed behind the carrier. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I have already instanced the case of the entire disintegration of a regiment whose colonel I met at Farmville. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Louisa said he was a love of a creature, and she adored him; and Mary instanced his pretty little mouth, and nice nose, as her ideal of the charming. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Gerty instanced her generous impulses--her restlessness and discontent. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
編輯:罗达