Philosopher
[fɪ'lɒsəfə] or [fə'lɑsəfɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a specialist in philosophy.
(noun.) a wise person who is calm and rational; someone who lives a life of reason with equanimity.
手打:斯蒂芬--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.
(n.) One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness.
(n.) An alchemist.
編輯:特伦斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Searcher after truth, student of first principles, seeker of wisdom.[2]. Theorist, theorizer, man of abstractions, speculator.
克莉丝汀編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Doctor, savant, teacher, master, schoolman
ANT:Ignoramus, sciolist, freshman, tyro, greenhorn, fool, booby, dunce
艾琳校對
解釋/意思:
n. a lover of wisdom: one versed in or devoted to philosophy: a metaphysician: one who acts calmly and rationally in all the affairs and changes of life—also Phil′osophe:—fem. Philos′ophess.—adjs. Philosoph′ic -al pertaining or according to philosophy: skilled in or given to philosophy: becoming a philosopher: rational: calm.—adv. Philosoph′ically.—v.i. Philos′ophise to reason like a philosopher: to form philosophical theories.—ns. Philos′ophiser a would-be philosopher; Philos′ophism would-be philosophy; Philos′ophist.—adjs. Philosophist′ic -al.—n. Philos′ophy the science of being as being: the knowledge of the causes and laws of all phenomena: the collection of general laws or principles belonging to any department of knowledge: reasoning: a particular philosophical system: calmness of temper.—Philosopher's stone an imaginary stone or mineral compound long sought after by alchemists as a means of transforming other metals into gold.—Moral and Natural philosophy (see Moral Natural).
手打:尤赖亚
娱乐性解釋/意思：
One who instead of crying over spilt milk consoles himself with the thought that it was over four-fifths water.
編輯:纳内特
例句/造句/用法:
- Still, a person may hesitate about the probability of the son of a king being a philosopher. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In the first place, as we began by observing, the nature of the philosopher has to be ascertained. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- As a great modern philosopher has said, Aristotle press ed his way through the mass of things knowable, and subjected its diversity to the power of his thought. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- As a result he was soon after made First Mathematician of the University of Pisa, and also Philosopher and Mathematician to the Grand Duke’s Court of Florence. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- And the anti-Christian German philosopher, Nietzsche, found himself quite at one with the pious field-marshal. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Then, do you see any way in which the philosopher can be preserved in his calling to the end? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The philosopher himself has lost the love of truth, and the soldier, who is of a simpler and honester nature, rules in his stead. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The philosopher should not beg of mankind to be put in authority over them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The trouble was that without realizing it I too had been in search of the philosopher's stone. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Sound philosopher,' said Mr. Pott. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- So that among the founders of our science, next to the name of the great French Philosopher, Lavoisier, will stand in future ages the name of John Dalton, of Manchester. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- This constitution was chiefly the joint production of a worthy philosopher Sieyès, who was one of the three consuls, and Bonaparte. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Need I recall the original image of the philosopher? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Every one will admit that the philosopher, in our description of him, is a rare being. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She was a philosopher. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning which will make them gentle. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It is only a hostile average-sensual-man background against which the philosophers and poets stand out. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And thus, Glaucon, after the argument has gone a weary way, the true and the false philosophers have at length appeared in view. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He was not a Plato or an Archimedes, but an efficient officer o f State, conscious of indebtedness to the great scientists and philosophers. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- A few men, philosophers or lovers of wisdom--or truth--may by study learn at least in outline the proper patterns of true existence. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Philosophers begin to be reconciled to the principle, that we have no idea of external substance, distinct from the ideas of particular qualities. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Some reg arded the great philosophers as the allies of the Church. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- May it not have been from such considerations that the ancient philosophers supposed a sphere of fire to exist above the air of our atmosphere? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Undoubtedly philosophers are in the right, when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Certainly nobody expects our politicians to become philosophers. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This self-taught American, to quote from the Edinburgh Review of 1806, is the most rational, perhaps, of all philosophers. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- You cannot go to any of the great philosophers even for the outlines of a statecraft which shall be fairly complete, and relevant to American life. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And the world if not a believer in the idea cannot be a philosopher, and must therefore be a persecutor of philosophers. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The Greek philosophers speak with the voice of reason. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
整理:罗拉