Uncertainty
[ʌn'sɜːt(ə)ntɪ;-tɪntɪ] or [ʌn'sɝtnti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; 'the uncertainty of the outcome'; 'the precariousness of his income'.
手打:西格蒙德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being uncertain.
(n.) That which is uncertain; something unknown.
校對:诺琳
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Ambiguity, doubt, obscurity, vagueness, dubiousness, incertitude, doubtfulness.[2]. Contingency.[3]. Irregularity, variableness, changeableness, capriciousness.
錄入:希莉娅
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CERTAIN]
手打:波莉
例句/造句/用法:
- In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Great is the uncertainty of life! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Uncertainty has the same influence as opposition. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Isaac gasped with terror and uncertainty. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- To be justified in your eyes, he must do it in the most complete uncertainty of any provision. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Nevertheless, in her new humiliating uncertainty she dared do nothing but comply. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If his progress downward had been attended with difficulties and uncertainty, his journey back was infinitely more perplexing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I am inclined to believe, from my uncertainty on this head, that it was six at first and seven afterwards. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I feel somewhat anxious to know, being a little tormented with uncertainty as to how I stand with her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- However, we have discovered that there WAS a predisposing influence against you--and there is one uncertainty cleared out of our way, at any rate. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Her uncertainty lasted but a moment; she hurried back, and tapped at his door, and softly called to him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Good casts were often thus procured, but the uncertainty of the process, arising from the frequent fusion of the lead matrices, caused it to be discontinued. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Mrs. Yeobright was in this state of uncertainty when she was informed one morning that her son's wife was visiting her grandfather at Mistover. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I don't say that he is not an honourable man, out of all this complication and uncertainty; I am sure he is. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- If there are genuine uncertainties in life, philosophies must reflect that uncertainty. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Sprague, who also gives a curious glimpse of the glorious uncertainties and vicissitudes of that formative period. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- My uncertainties ended in my taking a way that may make you laugh. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But, patience, patience--this uncertainty, and many uncertainties more, cannot last much longer. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- No, I have one hundred, said Bulstrode, feeling the immediate riddance too great a relief to be rejected on the ground of future uncertainties. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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