| 释义 |
modified, ppl. a.|ˈmɒdɪfaɪd|
[f. modify v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb: Limited, altered, qualified, etc. modified logic: see quot 1837–8. Modified Standard (English): see quot. 1934.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 126 Vassallis ar behaldyn to thair baroun in speciale jurisdiccioun modifyit, and to the king in generale. 1668Min. Baron Crt. Stitchill (1905) 53 Three punds sevin shillings for the modified pryce thereof. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xviii. §7 The names, which in several arts have been..applied to several complex ideas of modified actions. 1837Disraeli Venetia ii. ii, An uncertain light, or rather modified darkness, that seemed the sky. 1837–8Sir W. Hamilton Logic iv. (1860) I. 60 What I have called Modified Logic is identical with what Kant and other philosophers have denominated Applied Logic (Angewandte Logik, Logica applicata). 1845Proc. Philol. Soc. II. 166 The modified word is not, as with us, the predicate or qualifying noun, but the subject or leading one. 1845McCulloch Taxation i. i. (1852) 61 Proprietors of estates subject to a variable land-tax have, in fact, only a modified right of property in them. 1868Ouseley Harmony xv. 175 We may also take the third below,..and thus get a new bass, or as it is called, a modified bass. 1866Huxley Physiol. xii. (1869) 314 The crystalline lens is composed of fibres which are the modified cells of the epidermis. 1913H. C. Wyld in Mod. Lang. Teaching IX. 262/2 London English is a totally different thing from Received Standard: it is merely one of the many provincialisms, such as are heard in large cities, which fall under the designation of Modified Standard. 1914― Short Hist. English ix. 236 It seems probable that the influence of Modified Standard, that is, of forms of English differentiated out of Received Standard by factors of social isolation, will have to be admitted and studied in the future. 1934― in S.P.E. Tract xxxix. 604 Thousands of persons speak a form of English which is neither a local dialect, nor what some would call ‘good English’. For this latter type,..I proposed the term Modified Standard..to cover all the various types of English..which..while they adhere, on the whole, to the Standard, especially in accidence and syntax, are nevertheless more or less deeply affected, either by provincialism, or by..vulgarism, in pronunciation. 1940J. H. Jagger English in Future i. 15 Changes [in Standard English]..have been mainly due to the influence of the various forms of Modified Standard—to accept Professor Wyld's terms—upon each other and upon Received Standard. |