| 单词 | self-evident |
| 释义 | self-evident adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] A fact or situation that is self-evident is so obvious that there is no need for proof or explanation. It is self-evident that we will never have enough resources to meet the demand. The implications for this country are self-evident. Synonyms: obvious, clear, undeniable, inescapable self-evidently adverb [ADVERB adjective] The task was self-evidently impossible. Self-evidently a handful of companies will benefit. Collocations: self-evident truth This baleful phrase, implying conscious and unconscious collective guilt and distorted police priorities, came to be accepted as a self-evident truth. Times, Sunday Times I am the instrument of that eternal self-evident truth, an instrument that voices forth the message of the ever-true. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We live in a world not of self-evident truths but of probabilities. Times, Sunday Times But the second paragraph, with its talk of self-evident truths and unalienable rights, were applicable long after the war had ended. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The assertions by 18th century philosophers that natural rights are self-evident truths, he argues, are necessarily false as there are no such things as self-evident truths. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 不证自明的 Japanese: わかりきった |
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