Possess
[pə'zes] or [pə'zɛs]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill; 'he possesses great knowledge about the Middle East'.
(verb.) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas; 'What possessed you to buy this house?'; 'A terrible rage possessed her'.
編輯:迈尔斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.
(v. t.) To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.
(v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
(v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.
(v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Own, have a title to, be seized of.[2]. Have, hold, occupy, control.[3]. Put in possession.
編輯:菲利普
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Occupy, enjoy, have, hold, entertain, own
ANT:Abandon, renounce, abjure, surrender, lose, forfeit, resign
手打:卡尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to have or hold as an owner: to have the control of: to inform: to seize: to enter into and influence: to put (one's self) in possession (of): (Spens.) to achieve: (Shak.) put in possession of information convince.—adj. Possessed′ influenced by some evil spirit demented.—n. Posses′sion act of possessing: the thing possessed: a country taken by conquest: property: state of being possessed as by an evil spirit: madness.—adjs. Posses′sionary Posses′sive pertaining to or denoting possession.—n. Posses′sive (gram.) a pronoun denoting possession: the possessive case.—adv. Posses′sively.—n. Posses′sor one who possesses: owner: proprietor: occupant.—adj. Posses′sory relating to a possessor or possession: having possession.—Give possession to put in another's power or occupancy; Take possession to assume ownership; Writ of possession a process directing a sheriff to put a person in possession of property recovered in ejectment.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They possess significance only as movements toward something away from what is now going on. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Take me--mould me to your will, possess my heart and soul to all eternity. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I alone possess the key, and the gate is never left unlocked. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I do not; nor do I wish to possess it, replied the Count insolently. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- You may hide it, but I can possess it any moment I choose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I had scant luggage to take with me to London, for little of the little I possessed was adapted to my new station. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- My mother was the most beautiful woman, and possessed the finest and most benevolent countenance, I have ever seen in my whole life. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Medina was a comparatively well-watered town, and possessed abundant date groves; its inhabitants were Yemenites, from the fertile land to the south. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was extremely difficult, I heard, to make out what he owed, or what he had paid, or of what he died possessed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- What stores of knowledge they possessed! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Remember we have one possessing the fatal name of Helena here. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Not possessing my father's excellent common sense, answered Mr. Franklin, I believe the Colonel's life was threatened, exactly as the Colonel said. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Chairs, lounges and lighter furniture were thus made from bent pieces of wood with very few joints, having a neat and attractive appearance, and possessing great strength. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- She wondered at herself, as she had so often wondered, that, possessing the knack, she did not more consistently exercise it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The discovery was made in 1839, but was not accepted by those to whom it was submitted as possessing any importance. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I feel obliged to him for possessing it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If he has been kidnapped, it could not have been for anything which he himself possesses. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I don't know what it is you call by that name, or where it is, or who possesses it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- So Smyrna really still possesses her crown of life, in a business point of view. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- No uninstructed man or woman possesses it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No creed possesses any final sanction. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Each possesses a separate and independent province with its own peculiar aims and ways of proceeding. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Meyler possesses a good understanding when one can give him a fortnight to consider things; but whenever impulse is required he is of no use on earth. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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