| 单词 | brute force |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrute force a. Of things: not possessing or connected with reason, intelligence, or sensation; irrational, unconscious, senseless; merely material; esp. in brute matter, brute force. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > want of intellect > [adjective] mindlessOE brute1540 unintelligent1664 unintellectuala1676 numb1854 amental1877 1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) B v b Nature, reason, and comlynes commaunde the sayde body to be subjecte as a thynge brute, to that that dyeth never. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. v. 97 By Brute natures I vnderstand all Essences..that are meerely void of life. 1646 D. Evance Noble Order 37 Jehu, and Nebucadnezar weare but brute instruments to worke Gods purposes. 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 4 Brute inanimate Matter. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation i. 8 Who..believe That the Brute Earth unguided should embrace The only..Proper Place. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 60 A Tendency to prevail over brute Force. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. ii. 36 The necessary results of a brute mechanism. 1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xx. 455 Our Sanctuaries are nothing but brute stone, and still they weep. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. ix. 206 The land changed..by the brute forces of nature. < as lemmas |
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