| 单词 | coherent |
| 释义 | coherent (koʊhɪərənt ) 1. adjective If something is coherent, it is well planned, so that it is clear and sensible and all its parts go well with each other. He has failed to work out a coherent strategy for modernising the service. The President's policy is perfectly coherent. Synonyms: consistent, reasoned, organized, rational coherence uncountable noun The campaign was widely criticised for making tactical mistakes and for a lack of coherence. Synonyms: consistency, rationality, concordance, consonance Synonyms: intelligibility, comprehensibility coherently adverb [ADVERB with verb, ADVERB adjective] The government has to convince voters it is proceeding coherently toward its goals. 2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If someone is coherent, they express their thoughts in a clear and calm way, so that other people can understand what they are saying. He's so calm when he answers questions in interviews. I wish I could be that coherent. Synonyms: articulate, lucid, comprehensible, intelligible coherence uncountable noun She lost consciousness and when she came round she still lacked coherence and focus. Synonyms: consistency, rationality, concordance, consonance coherently graded adverb He talked coherently. Collocations: coherent alternative One of the key arguments against a regime change has been the absence of a coherent alternative. Times, Sunday Times Coming up with a coherent alternative economic policy would be a start. The Sun The other coherent alternative, nationalisation, has been tried and found wanting. Times, Sunday Times If you decide to renegotiate, make sure you present a detailed and coherent argument to the estate agent, backed up with evidence. Times,Sunday Times Dealing rather technically with concepts of space, time, causality and substance, he meticulously picks apart rival theories, putting forward a complex but coherent argument of his own. Times, Sunday Times Um, formulated a coherent argument? Times, Sunday Times It wasn't a coherent argument. Times, Sunday Times Students are expected to attain a high degree of legal knowledge, understanding and research skills, and to produce coherent arguments communicated in a clear and effective manner. Times, Sunday Times My chats with contemporaries are like bridge games where we try to fill in the gaps in each other's sentences to make one coherent conversation. Times, Sunday Times While holding a perfectly coherent conversation, my head was a riot of questions. Times, Sunday Times Sometimes very coherent conversations and sometimes very late at night, but it's for real. The Sun They reject the possibility that he fired on the police first, though they struggle to find a coherent explanation for what happened. Times, Sunday Times Defendant presented a coherent explanation for the structure of the market and plaintiff did not claim this explanation was pretextual. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It need not even be true, since a false though coherent explanation would be sufficient to show logical compatibility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A scholar must accept this limitation and accept as true the most coherent explanation for the available facts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Significant differences are found in the relative gland size between males and females in most species, however, no coherent explanation has as yet been found for these results. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Between them they have burrowed deep into the various subtexts to introduce a coherent framework of ideas around the theme of fertility and growth. Times, Sunday Times We desperately need the government to take a lead in developing a national litter strategy, to provide a coherent framework for action by business, local government, communities and voluntary groups. Times, Sunday Times Mathematical concepts and the processes of mathematical analysis and justication provide a unique and coherent framework for explaining a myriad of physical and social phenomena. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Few, however, have challenged his contributions to plant evolutionary biology, nor questioned his ability to synthesize disparate literature into a coherent framework. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cipher's early politics were not born out of a coherent ideology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its members lacked both a coherent ideology and an effective organizational structure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many stateless paramilitary bands lacking any coherent ideology fought these forces and each other in what frequently seemed a political free-for-all. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As it was, the challenge for him was how to cope with the wealth of disparate material and make a coherent narrative from it. The Times Literary Supplement Are we to take possession of ourselves, striving to weave the disparate elements of our lives into a coherent narrative? The Times Literary Supplement Television, however, needs to be anchored in a coherent narrative towork properly- otherwise it's just sub-standard videoart. Times, Sunday Times Nor did it spin a coherent narrative of its own. Times, Sunday Times Throughout, the narrator frets over how to weave the disparate parts of her life into a coherent narrative. The Times Literary Supplement Life was a skin: it could be peeled away like strips of wallpaper with its coherent pattern. The Times Literary Supplement A once-in-a-lifetime chance to see works, often created as part of a coherent pattern, reunited in the same place. Times, Sunday Times These were known by numbers, which were assigned without a seemingly coherent pattern. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her lyrics are composed of short fragments of simple speech that do not form a logical coherent pattern. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The eddies are loosely defined as coherent patterns of velocity, vorticity and pressure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet so disparate were her achievements that many have struggled to form a coherent picture of her. Times, Sunday Times He was able to make out colors and movements, but arranging them into a coherent picture was more difficult. Christianity Today Only an especially sensitive biographer could present a coherent picture of so paradoxical a character. The Times Literary Supplement Nothing added up to a coherent picture. Times, Sunday Times His coherent picture of current quantum physics, the general theory of relativity and the behaviour of cosmological everything causes less warp damage to the brain than might be expected. Times, Sunday Times I can think of all kinds of inadequacies, like not being able to put down a coherent sentence. Times, Sunday Times He was adamant he had not been sleeping but was unable to co-ordinate his teeth and tongue to form a coherent sentence to make this clear. The Sun Advertisers, who have never had more than a tenuous handle on reality, have, in the early 21st century, lost the ability to construct a coherent sentence. Times, Sunday Times And also the fact he has difficulty constructing a coherent sentence. The Sun His enthusiasm for unlicenced chemicals was reflected not only in the way his eyes bulged and tongue lolled, but also in his inability to form a coherent sentence. Times, Sunday Times Rather, it named a coherent set of philosophical ideas about emotions and morality. Christianity Today No coherent set of policies. Times, Sunday Times Translating this into a coherent set of peace talks will require a multitiered effort by many parties. Times, Sunday Times By its very nature post-anarchism rejects the idea that it should be a coherent set of doctrines and beliefs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Several commentators affirm that his position offers metaphysical coherence by providing a coherent set of concepts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It wasn't trying to be a coherent statement about two decades of stand-up - everybody just did their thing very effectively. Times, Sunday Times When you're as funny as this, you can leave the coherent statements to your accountant and get on with making people howl with laughter. Times, Sunday Times I tend to, with a petit pretension, read food lists as single coherent statements rather than directories of choice. Times, Sunday Times Instead, logically coherent statements are the only things that seem to persuade them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The connections between their stories are very loose, making this feel more like a triptych than one coherent story. Christianity Today Known as fixers, these people often make the difference between getting a coherent story and running around in a state of utter hopelessness. Times, Sunday Times To make it a joke instead of a logic puzzle, the result needs to be a coherent story that isn't strictly sensible in everyday terms. Times, Sunday Times You have added in layer upon layer in order to make it sound like a coherent story. Times, Sunday Times I've seen lots of poor comedies, but not many as weak as this in the basic business of linking scenes to form a coherent story. Times, Sunday Times We should create a more coherent structure. Times, Sunday Times Such strong scattering requires the existence of a coherent structure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He made the first observation of coherent structures in granular flows and pioneering contributions to dynamic fracture and acoustic emission from rapidly moving cracks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That requires a more flexible and coherent system. Times, Sunday Times The aim of the proposals will be to create a coherent system of building regulations and housing standards, to which all new developments would have to adhere. Times, Sunday Times It did not provide a complete and coherent system of all applicable rules or give legal solutions for all possible cases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Legacy systems may perform adequately even though they were not professionally designed as a coherent system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The creation of such systems requires integration of a large number of functionalities that must be carefully coordinated to achieve coherent system behavior. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once the brain perceives a threat, the nervous system goes into overdrive before a single coherent thought can be framed. Times, Sunday Times I voted 'leave' but have been saddened by the lack of coherent thought from either politicians or commentators. Times, Sunday Times The words often come from the sound of the music and eventually evolve into coherent thoughts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All major horizontal axis turbines today rotate the same way (clockwise) to present a coherent view. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Based on evidences of similarity the mapping agents combine their beliefs in order to provide a coherent view on the mappings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Applying this framework to human thought processes, nave scientists seek the consistency and stability that comes from a coherent view of the world and need for environmental control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has strong and coherent views. Times, Sunday Times Without a coherent vision for what a 'yes' would entail, six points from independence may be as close as he deserves to get. Times, Sunday Times So ambitious a project would nevertheless have been inconceivable if the minds behind it had not been moved by a coherent vision. The Times Literary Supplement But it never really feels like the coherent vision of accomplished director and star performer working in unison. Times, Sunday Times The second generation device used a more sophisticated implant enabling better mapping of phosphenes into coherent vision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The principles remain indispensable for a coherent vision of global health. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The result is a more coherent whole than their previous efforts. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Not much has been done to render the essays a coherent whole. The Times Literary Supplement (2010) Ingenious use of loops helps to glue the work into a coherent whole. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Translations: Chinese: 连贯的 Japanese: 首尾一貫した |
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