Representative
[reprɪ'zentətɪv] or ['rɛprɪ'zɛntətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who represents others.
(adj.) being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives; 'representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people' .
(adj.) standing for something else; 'the bald eagle is representative of the United States' .
(adj.) serving to represent or typify; 'representative moviegoers'; 'a representative modern play' .
手打:奥齐--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
(a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people.
(a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government.
(a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family.
(a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties.
(a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.
(n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude.
(n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.
(n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another.
(n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress.
(n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group.
(n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.
校對:罗赞
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Figurative, typical, symbolical.[2]. Delegated, acting for others.
a. Delegate, deputy, substitute, agent, proxy, LOCUM TENENS.
胡安編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Agent, commissioner, proxy, deputy, substitute, embodiment, personation,delegate, vicar, vicegerent, principal, sovereign, Constituency
ANT:Autocrat, dictator
SYN:Figurative, symbolical, delegated_to_others,[See FIGURATIVE_and_REPRESENT]
SYN:Likeness, personation, semblance, exhibition,[See LIKENESS]
达伦編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. In national politics a member of the Lower House in this world and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
艾格尼丝編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The more he suffers, the more averse he will be to me, having made me the principal representative of the great occasion of his suffering. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were dangerous now only to their own side, and the papal representative spent an unpleasant night hiding from them in the forest. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The engines and paddle wheels of the Adirondack are distinctly representative of the modern American side wheel steamer. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The States-General was far less representative of the whole body of citizens than was the English Parliament even in its Venetian days. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Your teacher shall be your representative. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The moment a man takes office he has no right to be the representative of one group alone. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Many thousands of these have been patented, but the Janney coupling, patented April 29, 1873, No. 138,405, is the most representative type. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Of the many patents granted for such machines the most representative ones are 243,287, 250,096, 267,014, 384,825, 450,624, 465,018, 480,256, 495,426, 489,484. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The quarrel between the representatives of the two interests is easily explicable historically. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Quite a number of the American representatives brought their wives. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As the sole remaining representatives of their decayed family, the persons of both were almost sacred in her eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- My son is one of the last representatives of two old families. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- They stood the representatives of their races. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Now, all these were more or less ancestral to living forms, and all have brains relatively much smaller than their living representatives. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The representatives of New York could with justice drink the health of the young inventor, whose system is one of the greatest boons the city has ever had conferred upon it. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- MUHLENBERG, _Speaker of the House of Representatives_. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- There stood the two children representatives of the two extremes of society. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But an _internal_ tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The representatives of the Barnacle Chorus dropped in next, and Mr Merdle's physician dropped in next. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The German Diet was like the States-General or like a parliament without the presence of elected representatives. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There were no newspapers,[242] and there was practically no use of elected representatives in the popular assemblies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:罗拉