Refractory
[rɪ'frækt(ə)rɪ] or [rɪ'fræktəri]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; 'the refractory period of a muscle fiber' .
(adj.) not responding to treatment; 'a stubborn infection'; 'a refractory case of acne'; 'stubborn rust stains' .
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解釋/意思:
(a.) Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
(a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore.
(n.) A refractory person.
(n.) Refractoriness.
(n.) OPottery) A piece of ware covered with a vaporable flux and placed in a kiln, to communicate a glaze to the other articles.
整理:凯蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Stubborn, obstinate, stiff, perverse, dogged, mulish, heady, headstrong, cross-grained, intractable, unyielding, contumacious, disobedient, unruly, pig-headed, ungovernable, cantankerous.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Perverse, contumacious, stubborn, unruly, obstinate, unmanageable, mutinous,rebellious, recalcitrant
ANT:Obedient, docile, amenable, manageable
丹尼尔編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. breaking through rules: unruly: unmanageable: obstinate: perverse: difficult of fusion as metals &c.: not susceptible as to disease.—adv. Refrac′torily.—n. Refrac′toriness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The slave-owner can whip his refractory slave to death,--the capitalist can starve him to death. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The bottom is formed of a refractory stone, which is renewable. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The soldiers were already very uncomfortable and very refractory. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Iron, somewhat more refractory, appeared later, but it also has an early history, and is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible (Genesis iv. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The means commonly employed, however, the imprisonment of all the refractory members, one would think, were forcible enough. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He also placed some of these refractory metals directly in the circuit, bringing them to incandescence, and used silicon in powdered form in glass tubes placed in the electric circuit. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Carbon crucible kept brilliantly incandescent by current in vacuo, for obtaining reaction with refractory metals. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This uses bits set with diamonds which, by their extreme hardness, cut through the most refractory rock with great rapidity. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Master Bardell, thus adjured, placed the refractory flat candle on the bottom stair, and vanished into the front parlour with his message. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Mr Venus took the lead, towing Mr Wegg, in order that his refractory leg might be promptly extricated from any pitfalls it should dig for itself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
整理:莱斯利