Significance
[sɪg'nɪfɪk(ə)ns] or [sɪɡ'nɪfɪkəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being significant; 'do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power'.
(noun.) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; 'the significance of his remark became clear only later'; 'the expectation was spread both by word and by implication'.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) Alt. of Significancy
拜伦整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Meaning, import, purport, sense.[2]. Importance, consequence, weight, moment.
杰瑞德校對
例句/造句/用法:
- They possess significance only as movements toward something away from what is now going on. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer's house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I did not understand then that there lay any special significance in his reference to other dainties. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Struck by the significance of his tone, Maurice looked keenly at him, and then turned to Crispin with a puzzled air. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- This use of the word empire was evidently a different one from its former universal significance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Has EVERYTHING that happens a universal significance? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The use or significance of these Azilian pebbles is still a profound mystery. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is not without significance that both Gilbert and Harvey had spent years in Italy, where, as we have implied, the experimental method of scientific research was early developed. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The stimulus to thinking is found when we wish to determine the significance of some act, performed or to be performed. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Her eye was arrested by what was a familiar sight enough, though it broke upon her now with a new significance. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Hence its unrivaled significance as a means of social direction. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The significance of habit is not exhausted, however, in its executive and motor phase. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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