Scope
[skəʊp] or [skop]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: 'the range of a supersonic jet'; 'a piano has a greater range than the human voice'; 'the ambit of municipal legislation'; 'within the compass of this article'; 'within the scope of an investigation'; 'outside the reach of the law'; 'in the political orbit of a world power'.
安娜贝拉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
(n.) Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
(n.) Extended area.
(n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
(v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
手打:莎伦
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Purpose, proposal, drift, tendency, aim, mark, intention, intent, purport, design, object, view.[2]. Room, opportunity, margin, range, liberty, latitude, amplitude, free course, free play, full play, elbow room.
校對:伊薇特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Aim, object, mark, end, design, purpose, intention, drift, room, occasion,opportunity, liberty
ANT:Avoidance, nonintention, pretermission, inadvertence, accident, aimlessness,deviation
桃乐茜編輯
解釋/意思:
n. (obs.) a bundle as of twigs.
n. that which one sees space as far as one can see: room or opportunity for free outlook: space for action: the end before the mind: intention: length of cable at which a vessel rides at liberty: a target.—adjs. Scope′ful with a wide prospect; Scope′less purposeless useless.
整理:拉尔夫
例句/造句/用法:
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Great scope is given to the natural history of man. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- We cannot foretell the scope and power of such a revival; we cannot even produce evidence of its onset. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For there is a difference in the social scope of purposes and the social importance of problems. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Hence it is not surprising that men have not recognized its full scope. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But these are speculations beyond our present scope. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Set going under adequate conditions they are magnets for gathering and retaining an indefinitely wide scope of intellectual considerations. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- There is too large a scope of country. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Giving full scope to his imagination, he asks if the earth as well as Saturn may not have been surrounded by a ring. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The trenchant divisions between right and wrong, honest and dishonest, respectable and the reverse, had left so little scope for the unforeseen. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It would be instructive, but scarcely within the scope of the narrative, to conduct the reader through this extensive plant and see its many interesting operations in detail. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For sins of omission a lack of space affords a reasonable excuse, and for those of commission the great scope of the work is pleaded in extenuation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Consequently it left unimpaired the scope of informational and abstract, or rationalistic studies. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
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