Narrowness
['næronɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the property of being narrow; having little width; 'the narrowness of the road'.
(noun.) a restriction of range or scope; 'the problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students'; 'the attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus'; 'frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons'.
安吉洛手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The condition or quality of being narrow.
手打:默文
例句/造句/用法:
- The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In small towns and country villages, on account of the narrowness of the market, trade cannot always be extended as stock extends. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I wasand with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It shows the sciences in their interrelations, and saves the student from narrowness and premature specialization. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The smallness of the rooms above and below, indeed, and the narrowness of the passage and staircase, struck her beyond her imagination. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Men are not able radically to cure, either in themselves or others, that narrowness of soul, which makes them prefer the present to the remote. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The narrowness of American political issues is a fixation upon instruments. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The narrowness of the Isthmus naturally suggested the cutting of a waterway through it. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It ends, in spite of your confounded English narrowness and prejudice, in my being perfectly happy and comfortable. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Benjamin still had a hankering for the sea, but he recognized in the printing-office and access to books other means of escape from the narrowness of the Boston of 1720. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Oh-- she exclaimed, as if terrified by the narrowness of their escape. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- They had been taught to shun all forms of narrowness and intolerance. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The narrowness of view, which to ourselves appears so singular, was to him natural, if not unavoidable. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- They are never well, and their minds and views shrink to wondrous narrowness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- These qualities compensate, in some measure, for the narrowness of available opportunities. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
編輯:基蒂