Remote
[rɪ'məʊt] or [rɪ'mot]
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
(superl.) Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses.
(superl.) Not agreeing; alien; foreign.
(superl.) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
(superl.) Separate; abstracted.
(superl.) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
(superl.) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
(superl.) Separated by intervals greater than usual.
博比編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Far, distant, far off, not near, not nigh.[2]. Alien, foreign, unallied, separated, unconnected.[3]. Secluded, sequestered, removed.
黛娜編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Distant, indirect, unconnected, unrelated, foreign, alien, heterogeneous,separate, contingent
ANT:Near, close, direct, connected, related, homogeneous, immediate, proximate,essential, present, pressing, urgent, actual
編輯:维姬
解釋/意思:
adj. moved back to a distance in time or place: far: distant: primary as a cause: not agreeing: not nearly related.—adv. Remote′ly.—ns. Remote′ness; Remō′tion (Shak.) act of removing: remoteness.
手打:兰斯洛特
例句/造句/用法:
- Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- It is true Carthagena is in America, but as remote from the northern colonies as if it had been in Europe. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Things remote in space and time affect the issue of our actions quite as much as things which we can smell and handle. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Reason ceases to be a remote and ideal faculty, and signifies all the resources by which activity is made fruitful in meaning. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But herein lies the difference betwixt them: The same good, when near, will cause a violent passion, which, when remote, produces only a calm one. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But both had the remote, virgin look of modern girls, sisters of Artemis rather than of Hebe. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Archeologists have deprived the Greeks of this gift, and carried back its origin to remoter ages and localities. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- An old man came into the remoter light of the fire from the direction of the homestead. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- If not remote enough, I can go remoter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- To the east, in Mesopotamia, the British, using Indian troops chiefly, made a still remoter flank attack upon the Central Powers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is true something is known of remoter times. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Roumania and Italy, both Latin in tradition, both nominally allies of Germany, pursued remoter and deeper schemes in common. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Yet in her remoter soul, she knew as well as the adults knew: perhaps better. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands, and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene labours. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Within a few minutes, it was heard in the remotest room in the College. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Moreover, the most delicate notes of a violin can be heard in the remotest corners of a concert hall, when not the slightest motion of the air can be seen or felt. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Sir Leicester's cousins, in the remotest degree, are so many murders in the respect that they will out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In our modern languages they are named after the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, which from the remotest times were personified and worshiped. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Here I am,' said the editor, from the remotest end of the room; far beyond all hope of food, unless something was done for him by the hostess. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She cannot afford, and he cannot afford, the remotest chance of another separation from a friend. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the active superintendence of this young person, Judy Smallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
康拉德編輯