Significant
[sɪg'nɪfɪk(ə)nt] or [sɪɡ'nɪfɪkənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) fairly large; 'won by a substantial margin' .
(adj.) important in effect or meaning; 'a significant change in tax laws'; 'a significant change in the Constitution'; 'a significant contribution'; 'significant details'; 'statistically significant' .
(adj.) too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation; 'the interaction effect is significant at the .01 level'; 'no significant difference was found' .
錄入:撒迦利亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look.
(a.) Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event.
(n.) That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
校對:苏西
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Betokening, indicative, expressive, pregnant with meaning.[2]. Important, weighty, momentous.
整理:朱莉安娜
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Expressive, momentous, suggestive, indicative, forcible, weighty, symbolical,telling, speaking
ANT:Inexpressive, meaningless, expressionless, unindicative, mute
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例句/造句/用法:
- He gave me another significant look as he passed on into the sitting-room. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- With a significant grin Malone produced his pistols, offering one to each of his brethren. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But, as it was, she only learned, from some very significant looks, how far their penetration, founded on Margaret's instructions, extended. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Particularly significant are the stories that represent him as discouraging extreme mortification. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- More and more important grow the legions; less and less significant are the Senate and the assemblies of Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Archer, while he helped her on with her Opera cloak, noticed the exchange of a significant smile between the older ladies. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- It is a significant and gratifying fact that Confederates should have joined heartily in this spontaneous move. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- When one has such a notion, activity is a mere unavoidable means to something else; it is not significant or important on its own account. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- To-day their shops give employment to 3,800 workmen, which furnishes a significant object lesson as to the importance and growth of the industry. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- To the court of Tai-tsung came an embassy from Byzantium, and, what is more significant, from Persia came a company of Nestorian missionaries (631). 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Lacking qualitative distinctions, nature lacked significant variety. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Such praise on such an occasion from the man who introduced incandescent electric lighting into Germany is significant as to the continued appreciation abroad of Mr. Edison's work. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The dangerous character of this and other rocks in this vicinity gave long ago to this channel the significant name of Hell Gate. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But when the subject matter is not used in carrying forward impulses and habits to significant results, it is just something to be learned. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- That quiet foreign person, Mrs. Rubelle, crossed her thin brown hands in front of her, and looked at me with a very significant smile. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They might have expressed hidden anger or hidden grief--it was hard to say which--there was no significant trembling in them. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- In the former case, his entire course of activity is significant; each phase of it has its own value. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The very title of his book--Human Nature in Politics--is significant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Raising his finger to his lips and then tapping his sword in a significant manner, the youth crept noiselessly toward the vessel. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Our untrue ideas are significant because they influence our lives enormously. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But its activities, not being utilized in occupation with things which yield significant results, have to be frowned upon. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Bishop had no idea that there was anything significant in the occasion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You are so changed, I sometimes think-- there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The injuries and hardships suffered by the men who used it, rather than by the enemy, rendered its name significant. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- For how can there be a society really worth serving unless it is constituted of individuals of significant personal qualities? 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Mrs. Cadwallader said nothing, but gave her husband three significant nods, with a very sarcastic expression in her dark eyes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Another point in the story is very significant indeed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The necessary consequence is an isolation of science from significant experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The contrast, in this respect, between them and their European colleagues is highly significant. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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