Priority
[praɪ'ɒrɪtɪ] or [praɪ'ɔrəti]
解釋/意思:
(a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
(a.) Precedence; superior rank.
編輯:罗赞娜
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Antecedence, anteriority, precedence.
伊万杰琳校對
例句/造句/用法:
- It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Both houses are your home, my dear, said he, but the older Bleak House claims priority. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Furnace and Ashton, of Hull, to priority in building the first steam-vessel that was worked in England. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Like most all valuable inventions, Mr. Bessemer’s claim to priority for the invention was contested. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In such cases only one patent can be issued, and that to the inventor who on the taking of testimony shows priority in date of invention. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This claim to priority was supported by the publication of a description of the machine, and certificate of its use, in the _Union_, a newspaper published at Lexington, Va. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is that of PRIORITY Of time in the cause before the effect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Then, Hermione, assuming priority of speech, resumed as if wearily: 'To what does he want you to submit? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- And so great was the activity and the number of inventors that he is a daring man who would now decide priority between them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Tyrants were distinguished from kings, who claimed some sort of right, some family priority, for example, to rule. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Priority was claimed by two firms of spectacle-makers in Middelburg, Holland, namely, Zacharias, miscal led Jansen, and Lippershey. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Priority is a poor recommendation in a husband if he has got no other. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
校對:迈克尔