Skeptical
['skɛptɪkl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a sceptic or skepticism; characterized by skepticism; hesitating to admit the certainly of doctrines or principles; doubting of everything.
(a.) Doubting or denying the truth of revelation, or the sacred Scriptures.
科尔校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [Written also Sceptical.] Doubting, disbelieving, incredulous.
手打:雷克斯
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to the philosophical school in ancient Greece of Pyrrho and his successors: doubting: hesitating to admit the certainty of doctrines or principles: (theol.) doubting or denying the truth of revelation.—ns. Scep′sis Skep′sis philosophic doubt; Scep′tic one who is sceptical: (theol.) one who doubts or denies the existence of God or the truths of revelation.—adv. Scep′tically.—n. Scep′ticalness.—v.i. Scep′ticise to act the sceptic.—n. Scep′ticism that condition in which the mind is before it has arrived at conclusive opinions: doubt: the doctrine that no facts can be certainly known: agnosticism: (theol.) doubt of the existence of God or the truth of revelation.
校對:迈克尔
例句/造句/用法:
- At one time the Astronomer Royal had felt very skeptical about the possibility of the discovery which his own labors had contributed to advance. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I was skeptical, but you finally convinced me; so now I am positive that toward the south we must travel to reach our friends. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The public was skeptical, however, and some averred that he was a lightning calculator who did sums in his head and printed them on the machine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So skeptical were the farmers that it was seven years before one bought a reaper of him. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A vast amount of educational work had to be done before a skeptical public would accept the telephone at its true value, yet courage and persistency triumphed. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- It was a thing unprecedented in Smyrna at that time of the year, and scared some of the most skeptical. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:迈克尔