| 单词 | special |
| 释义 | spe·cial I. 1. < a special occasion > especially 2. < not a special friend of mine > 3. a. < to this special evil an improvement of style would apply a special redress — Thomas De Quincey > b. < a special concept > 4. a. < a special edition of a newspaper > b. < a special correspondent > < went west on a special train > 5. < a special act of Congress > < a special branch of study > < a special student in college is not enrolled for the usual degree > 6. < a special confession > Synonyms: < a special diet for these cases > < special fatigue duty > < the women never drink in this manner, which is absolutely special to men — J.G.Frazer > < land that has special charm or outstanding beauty — S.P.B.Mais > < it's not like ordinary photographs. There's something special about it — Arnold Bennett > especial may add implications of preeminence or preference < Gettysburg is of especial interest because of the famous battle — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < not one of his especial chums — Samuel Butler †1902 > specific is applicable to special traits and characteristics in proportion as the group they characterize is limited; it often describes traits of an individual < get down to specific cases > < the pressure on the universities, therefore, to educate men and women for specific vocations both increased and diversified — J.B.Conant > < some years ago we read with singular pleasure a new guidebook … its specific charm was simply that it left out all the gush — C.E.Montague > particular, often interchangeable with specific, may differ from it in increasing suggestions of individual distinctness and decreasing those of membership in a group < more than three years in the South were a happy experience and a liberalizing education for this particular northern boy — E.J.Benton > < any particular remark of a psychologist, if true, is unlikely to be startling — I.A.Richards > < a sense for particular beauties of nature, rather than a sense for Nature herself — Laurence Binyon > individual applies to what is clearly isolated or individualized from all else < the individual idiosyncrasies of each member of the great family — Sherwood Anderson > < more faith in the collective opinion of all Americans than in the individual opinion of any one American — F.D.Roosevelt > < while the political influence of the baronage as a leading element in the whole nation thus steadily mounted, the personal and purely feudal power of each individual baron on his own estates as steadily fell — J.R.Green > II. III. 1. a. obsolete b. < from the general to the special > c. obsolete d. < not a regular, but a special > < newsboys hawking the afternoon specials > < a store featuring specials on meats > 2. < the train was a special for the football game > 3. a. b. |
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