Utility
[juːˈtɪləti] or [ju'tɪləti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility; 'the cost of utilities never decreases'; 'all the utilities were lost after the hurricane'.
(noun.) a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal; 'the price of the house included all utilities'.
(noun.) the quality of being of practical use.
(noun.) a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.
(noun.) (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice.
(adj.) capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; 'a utility infielder' .
(adj.) used of beef; usable but inferior .
錄入:玛丽埃塔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
(n.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
(n.) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
編輯:珀西
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Usefulness (in an abstract sense), advantageousness, benefit, avail, profit, service, use.
奥罗拉編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Usefulness, benefit, profit, advantage, advantageousness, service,[SeeADVANTAGE]
校對:奥利弗
例句/造句/用法:
- The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- McCormick, of Virginia, and Obed Hussey, of Maryland, were the men who brought the reaper to a condition of practical utility. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- So far as to the utility, which may attend any quality of the body. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The institution soon manifested its utility; was imitated by other towns and in other provinces. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Health, wealth, efficiency, sociability, utility, culture, happiness itself are only abstract terms which sum up a multitude of particulars. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The ingenuity and utility of this system are indisputable. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The utility element is found in the motives assigned for the study, the liberal element in methods of teaching. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Of these I was the eldest, and the destined successor to all his labours and utility. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Now the question is, after what manner this utility and importance operate upon us? 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Perceiving of what great utility such an instrument would prove in naval and military operations, and seeing that His Serenity the Doge desired to possess it, I resolved on the 24th inst. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Natural science is recommended on the ground of its practical utility, but is taught as a special accomplishment in removal from application. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Of the segregations of educational values discussed in the last chapter, that between culture and utility is probably the most fundamental. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- With regard to the utility of this discovery the court would deem it a waste of time to dwell long upon this topic. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- We unavoidably lose sight of the principle of utility, just in that action of our lives in which we have the most need of it. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Public utility, however, and not revenue, was the original object of this institution. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Public utilities were in the making, and no one in particular had a keen sense of what was right or what was wrong, in the hard, practical details of their development. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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