| 单词 | artificial |
| 释义 | ar·ti·fi·cial I. 1. a. < the people do not resort to artificial irrigation — J.G.Frazer > b. < whether Milly's bloom was natural, as it appeared, or artificial, as Victoria suspected — Ellen Glasgow > < the use of live bait versus artificial flies in angling > < an artificial limb replacing the amputated leg > : made especially by chemical process to resemble a raw material or something derived from it : synthetic < artificial silk > < artificial cotton > < artificial diamonds > c. < artificial daughters of all breeds of cattle > < first artificial breeding association formed in U.S. — New England Homestead > 2. a. b. < the empire must be felt not as an artificial novelty but as the natural extension of the republican tradition — John Buchan > < most of the inequalities in the existing world are artificial — Bertrand Russell > 3. obsolete a. b. c. 4. a. < the common tone was artificial, was unreal — C.E.Norton > < none of that artificial shamefacedness which her husband mistook for delicacy — W.M.Thackeray > b. < so affected, so fussy, so artificial — Kenneth Roberts > < to disregard the rules artificial of somewhat emptied rhetoric — H.O.Taylor > c. < a training army which has not been equipped with guns and artillery and tanks uses artificial guns and masquerading trucks — John Steinbeck > 5. Synonyms: < rayon is called artificial silk and is spoken of as a synthetic fabric > artificial contrasts with natural < artificial and natural silks > < artificial and natural heat > < the miner must work by artificial light even though the sun be shining outside: still further down in the seams, he must work by artificial ventilation, too — Lewis Mumford > synthetic is likely to connote chemical combination or similar processes < synthetic flavors or dyes > < synthesis always means synthesis. Synthetic camphor and synthetic quinine mean just that — H.L.Fisher > artificial may apply to anything existing in human but not in natural affairs < a corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible and existing only in contemplation of law — John Marshall > < now magicians or medicine men appear to constitute the oldest artificial or professional class in the evolution of society — J.G.Frazer > artificial, factitious, and synthetic may all describe the forced, constrained, simulated, fabricated, or unnatural in matters social or personal; they all indicate a lack of the natural or spontaneous < the strained artificial romanticism of Kotzebue's lugubrious dramas — J.W.Krutch > < at her best she is artificial … one can always feel the heavily conscious performer — G.J.Nathan > < in the degree in which decorative effect is achieved in isolation, it becomes empty embellishment, factitious ornamentation — like sugar figures on a cake — John Dewey > < emotional depths which till now had seemed to him unreal, theatrical, factitious — B.A.Williams > < an esoteric jargon which did not even have the authentic ring of American slang. It was purely synthetic — Stanley Walker > < the usually synthetic obscenities of the popular joke, the remote glamor of the embraces of moving-picture stars — Lewis Mumford > factitious is less common than artificial; synthetic is more recent in this use and more likely to suggest technological fabrication. II. 1. < there are many live-bait fishermen but the advocates of artificials are agreed on one thing — Eddie Finlay > specifically 2. artificials plural, chiefly Britain < this crop grows easily on poor soil and although it responds to lime it does not like artificials — Farming > |
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