| 单词 | mastery |
| 释义 | mastery (once / 860 pages) n Mastery refers to having great skill at something or total dominance over something. If you are fluent in French, you have a mastery of the language. If you win every game of chess, you show a mastery of the game. Mastery is from master, who is someone knowledgeable about a subject, like a master painter. Masters are also people with power — butlers sometimes call their employer master. Mastery refers to a similar power or ability. Beethoven showed mastery in composing. Shakespeare displayed mastery in writing. Apple has had mastery over the field of computers and smartphones. Often, both senses are mixed: if someone has mastery over a field skill-wise, they probably have mastery in terms of dominance too. WORD FAMILYmastery: masteries+/master: mastered, masterful, mastering, masteringly, masterless, masterly, masters, mastership, mastery, overmaster/masterful: masterfully/masterly: masterlily/mastership: masterships/overmaster: overmastered, overmastering, overmasters USAGE EXAMPLESAmong those being expelled, it said, was the diplomatic post’s chef, “whose mastery was enjoyed by hundreds of our guests” for three years. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Crescendoing from totally mundane music video concepts to actual surreal, semi-frightening 3D experiences, the six-piece series shows the artist’s growing mastery of this burgeoning technology. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) The research is ingenious and promising, but it also suggests a mastery over nature that may be hard to achieve. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1n great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity Syn|Hyper command, control skillfulness the state of being cognitively skillful 2n the act of mastering or subordinating someone Syn|Hyper subordination domination social control by dominating 3n power to dominate or defeat mastery of the seas Syn|Hypo|Hyper domination, supremacy superiority, transcendence, transcendency the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance the state that exists when one person or group has power over another |
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