| 单词 | rational |
| 释义 | rational (ræʃənəl ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Rational decisions and thoughts are based on reason rather than on emotion. He's asking you to look at both sides of the case and come to a rational decision. Mary was able to short-circuit her stress response by keeping her thoughts calm and rational. rationally adverb [usually ADVERB with verb] It can be very hard to think rationally when you're feeling so vulnerable and alone. rationality (ræʃənælɪti ) uncountable noun We live in an era of rationality. 2. adjective A rational person is someone who is sensible and is able to make decisions based on intelligent thinking rather than on emotion. Did he come across as a sane rational person? Rachel looked calmer and more rational now. Synonyms: sane, balanced, normal, all there [informal] Collocations: rational analysis Still clinging on in a playoff spot despite sequences of results that defy rational analysis. Times, Sunday Times This comes less from rational analysis than from an understandable fear of the unknown. Times, Sunday Times By all rational analysis, that matter was closed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But the angry mood should not obscure rational analysis. Times, Sunday Times They're not all heroes - blind courage may be seen as a virtue, less so the rational analysis of risk measured against reward. Times, Sunday Times I just try to make a rational assessment of what constitutes danger. Times, Sunday Times By then, with luck, they should be in a position to make a more rational assessment of the captaincy. Times, Sunday Times Emotions such as fear and greed can sway market prices beyond a dispassionately rational assessment of what the stocks are worth. Times, Sunday Times On any rational assessment, though, they look frothy. Times, Sunday Times For a rational assessment, try some online psychometric tests. Times, Sunday Times Yet for the economy overall, this individually rational behaviour causes a collapse in aggregate demand. Times,Sunday Times Cognitive biases, the psychological tics that distort rational behaviour, are rife in referendums. Times, Sunday Times This perfectly rational behaviour undermines demand, further reducing the ability of vendors to achieve the prices they want. Times, Sunday Times It was not rational behaviour but who should he confide in? Times, Sunday Times However, in the research literature there are many examples of rational behaviour when escaping threatening and dangerous situations, for example co-operation and helping behaviours. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Overall, our work presents the first small, synthetic allosteric plasmin inhibitors for further rational design. 2015, 'Plasmin Regulation through Allosteric, Sulfated, Small Molecules', Molecules Abiraterone acetate was developed by rational design based on a pregnenolone parent structure. 2012, 'Abiraterone and other novel androgen-directed strategies for the treatment of prostate cancer: a new era of hormonal therapies is born', Therapeutic Advances in Urology The combined in silico and in vitro approach should facilitate rational design of new tetravalent antifungal peptides. 2014, 'Synthetic Multivalent Antifungal Peptides Effective against Fungi', PLoS ONE But here we are: humans have rational faculties, and also bodies, emotions, and histories. Christianity Today We do not do violence to our rational faculties, but we listen with more than the mind-we listen with the spirit, with the heart, with our whole being. Christianity Today The vegetative, sensitive, and rational faculties are all performed by this single entity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Famously, he stated that all men are intellectuals, in that all have intellectual and rational faculties, but not all men have the social function of intellectuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I have only a rational fear of snakes; it's spiders that give me the twitches. Times, Sunday Times Not all bursting bubbles are based on a rational fear of systemic collapse but many, including the last one, are. Times, Sunday Times In case both rates were equal, given an anticipated shock to the labor income, rational individual would hold a large stock of assets to hedge for the income risk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The central banker once dubbed 'the maestro' had believed that the self-interest of rational individuals would bring about the best outcome. Times, Sunday Times Rational individuals take sequential decisions to achieve a coherent and stable future goal using currently available information. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This discussion has been conducted almost entirely for self-interested rational individuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many economists have regarded this as unrealistic, believing that rational individuals would sooner or later realize the trend and take it into account in forming their expectations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the subjects thought about the latter, brain areas associated with rational planning lit up, telling them to be patient. Times, Sunday Times The city's emphasis on rational planning and logical structure seemed to offer a blueprint for building a society organized around predictable rules and carefully calculated goals. The Times Literary Supplement It stressed the need for modernization, economic development and rational planning and organization, while opposing extreme nationalism and anti-foreign sentiment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Due to the high level of training required to grasp these methods, however, rational planning fails to provide an avenue for public participation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By focusing so much on design by technical elites, rational planning lost touch with the public it hoped to serve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There needs to be a sober and rational response to the compelling evidence which extremely courageous survivors are providing. The Sun When critics called him a sellout or materialist, he had the answer: selfishness was a rational response to the reality he faced. Times, Sunday Times A rational response would be something like an unvarying factory siren of unanimous disgust. Times, Sunday Times Fear has become a rational response. Christianity Today However, he said that his ruling did not amount to a 'showstopper, in the sense that the only rational response would be to abandon the whole project at this stage'. Times, Sunday Times When it comes to a fight that we think we can win, calculations of rational self-interest are cast aside. Times, Sunday Times Electorates are supposed to vote in their own rational self-interest. Times, Sunday Times Similarly, behavioural economics revealed as flawed the assumption that people act in their own rational self-interest. Times,Sunday Times Behavioural economics, which identifies irrational human biases to correct the outdated theory that people act in rational self-interest, has been around since the 1970s. Times, Sunday Times Even libertarians center their analysis on the free individual and rational self-interest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Football isn't helped by the lack of flexibility and time pressure that drives up prices and even removes rational thinking from deals. The Sun Even as his government crumbled about him he remained confirmed in his belief that good judgement, the 'fair-go' principle and the rational thinking of the people would win out. The Times Literary Supplement The ensuing display of emotional incontinence, selfcentredness and suspension of rational thinking was the moment when many of us realised how the country had changed, perhaps for good. Times, Sunday Times Such stories are not anti-intellectual; they offer a warning against too great a confidence in logical or rational thinking. Times, Sunday Times Ah, but that would require some clear and rational thinking from the ruling bodies. Times, Sunday Times Nine of the decisions presented here were the result of rational thought. Times, Sunday Times Forwards, backwards and in a series of plummeting or soaring corkscrews (it was hard to tell), the revolutions are exquisitely designed to corrupt rational thought. Times, Sunday Times However, when faced with a difficult moral judgment, the brain activated other areas including those connected with both rational thought and primitive emotions. Times, Sunday Times Except, of course, he wouldn't because he's an insect and therefore has no capacity for rational thought. The Sun These are systemic distortions to rational thought that very often deliver bad outcomes. Times,Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 理性的 Japanese: 理にかなった |
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