Multiplicity
[,mʌltɪ'plɪsɪtɪ] or [,mʌltɪ'plɪsəti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects.
手打:尤赖亚
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Great number.
艾弗里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Here's a disaster--a multiplicity of disasters in short, as Lady Berwick said one day, when the compound evils fell upon her. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I was just beginning to suspect from the multiplicity of your questions that you did. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The multiplicity of its appeals--the perpetual surprise of its contrasts and resemblances! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Think of all this and ask yourself whether the world is more likely to be a believer in the unity of the idea, or in the multiplicity of phenomena. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He paid homage both to the multiplicity and the uniform ity of nature, the wealth of the phenomena and the simplicity of the law explaining the phenomena. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Then, I said, if these and these only are to be used in our songs and melodies, we shall not want multiplicity of notes or a panharmonic scale? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In 1763 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny (see Fig. 285), in which a multiplicity of spindles was employed, whereby one person could attend to the making of many threads simultaneously. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- This saves the duplication and multiplicity of a vast number of extra keys. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- On the other hand, a multiplicity of objects can never convey this idea, however resembling they may be supposed. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The former secures unity, order, and law; the latter signify multiplicity and discord, irrational fluctuations from one estate to another. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
編輯:纽曼