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单词 self-evident
释义

self-evident

/ˌsɛlfˈɛvɪd(ə)nt /
adjective
Not needing to be demonstrated or explained; obvious: self-evident truths [with clause]: it is self-evident that childhood experiences must have a profound effect upon our beliefs about ourselves...
  • Less obvious truths are deduced from these self-evident beginnings by individually obvious steps.
  • They really do exist, and to them their conspiracy theories are merely a self-evident truth that the rest of us are too blind to see.
  • Now, whether it is a concession or whether it is self-evident, it is obvious people relied upon gas.

Synonyms

obvious, clear, plain, evident, apparent, manifest, patent;
distinct, definite, transparent, overt, discernible, visible, conspicuous, palpable, glaringly obvious, undisguised, unconcealed, unmistakable, unequivocal, unquestionable, undeniable

Derivatives

self-evidence

noun ...
  • Ever since photography's appearance on the stage of history, any possibility of repudiating what has turned into the self-evidence of photography, or photography as being self-evident, has thus been drastically curtailed.
  • That this truth, for all its self-evidence, was a relatively recent discovery - the product, give or take a decade, of the preceding one hundred years - is important.
  • The familiarity and self-evidence you speak of is, of course, precisely the proper object of critical thought.

self-evidently

/ˌsɛlfˈɛvɪdəntli / adverb ...
  • Where to draw the line, of course, is self-evidently difficult.
  • Last week there was outrage over an academic's self-evidently preposterous argument about English teachers and the re-election of the Howard government.
  • The hallmark of popular morality is its hostility to critical analysis because it makes certain propositions appear to be self-evidently true or in accord with the nature of things.
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