Undesirable
[ʌndɪ'zaɪərəb(ə)l] or [,ʌndɪ'zaɪərəbl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) one whose presence is undesirable; 'rounding up vagrants and drunks and other undesirables'.
(adj.) not wanted; 'undesirable impurities in steel'; 'legislation excluding undesirable aliens';'removed the unwanted vegetation' .
(adj.) not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse) .
比安卡手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
adj. not to be wished for.—ns. Undesirabil′ity; Undesir′ableness.—adv. Undesir′ably.—adjs. Undesired′; Undesir′ing; Undesir′ous.
編輯:韦斯利
例句/造句/用法:
- Apprehension means dread of undesirable consequences, as well as intellectual grasp. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And so he bids him and his companions depart, just as any other father might drive out of the house a riotous son and his undesirable associates. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- One comprehensive party platform fusing every interest is impossible and undesirable. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- She had found in her every thing that could tend to make a farther connection between the families undesirable. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The plate is next subjected to the mechanical operation of routing out or cutting away the undesirable portions by a routing machine, seen in Fig. 214. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And I hardly know what undesirable results might not have happened, if I had taken him into my confidence. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- This, though very undesirable, would be no matter of agony to her. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- If the activity as manifested in its consequences is undesirable, to act upon principle is to accentuate its evil. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The cow and the pig have gone, and the horse is still more undesirable. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But it overlooks the fact that fear need not be an undesirable factor in experience. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The third sentence urges greater safeguards against undesirable marriages. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
編輯:韦德