| 单词 | design |
| 释义 | de·sign I. transitive verb 1. a. < a savage on seeing a watch would at once conclude that it was designed — Samuel Butler †1902 > b. < a city designed to destruction > < grants designed in his will for making amends > c. < mementos of his travels that he had designed for friends > d. < he was sociable by disposition, and I believe he designed particularly to shine in the world of talk and manners — Osbert Sitwell > < when some other foreign power designed division or seizure — Roger Burlingame > e. archaic f. < a book designed primarily as a college textbook > < a program obviously designed as a first approach to this problem > g. < the challenging problem of designing a college curriculum for young women > < a little group of members which is designed for study, propaganda, and energetic canvassing — R.M.Dawson > < designed to form a frame for what was to come after — E.M.Lustgarten > 2. a. obsolete b. archaic c. < designing a friend to act as substitute > < the other parties named and designed in the summons > d. archaic 3. a. archaic b. < she has designed the dances for several Broadway hits > < a curious woman whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage — Oscar Wilde > c. < he designed many buildings and bridges > d. < he was also a clever artist and designed scenes with a flair for color — Winifred Bambrick > < buildings of the institution are so designed that each patient's room opens upon a porch — American Guide Series: Michigan > e. < a landscaping authority to design the city's park system > < can start to design and execute a foreign policy without fear — H.W.Barber > < like most Communist propaganda it was very cleverly designed — Patrick McMahon > < knows how to design a part so that it develops and acquires momentum in performance — Brooks Atkinson > f. < statutes are designed to meet the fugitive exigencies of the hour — B.N.Cardozo > < slogans are normally designed to get action without reflection — A.E.Stevenson b.1900 > < marriage was a social institution designed to fit instinct into a legal framework — Bertrand Russell > < would do it for $5000, a price … designed to discourage offers — Elsa Maxwell > intransitive verb 1. 2. < those who design for the home > < in designing for motion pictures there is also the problem of geography — Cedric Gibbons > a. b. c. 3. < this ship designs for Guam > < the young man designs for law > Synonyms: see intend, plan I II. 1. < morality also, like religion, is a product of human design — Benjamin Farrington > < had no rivals among the secular rulers of Europe for largeness of designs — R.W.Southern > 2. a. < my design in writing this preface is to forestall certain critics > < he has ambitious designs for his son > b. < what superficially may appear to be a masterpiece of design was likely to have been just an empirical policy of muddling through — Times Literary Supplement > < his clumsiness is due to inattention rather than design > < battle was joined apparently more by accident than design — John Buchan > also < the teleological, which shows the marks of design in nature, and from them argues to a great designer — Encyc. Americana > — opposed to accident 3. a. < each camp accusing the other of imperialist designs > < eager to ferret out any subversive design > < a declaration of a design upon his life — John Locke > b. designs plural < the United States has no … designs against any of its neighbors anywhere — A.H.Vandenberg †1951 > < has designs on the money > 4. < a textile design and its specifications constitute the complete working plan for the manufacture of a fabric — Alfred Higgins & R.L.La Vault > 5. a. < he made two or three charming and blasphemous designs — W.B.Yeats > b. c. < his sense of structure, both in the general design of Paradise Lost and Samson, and in his syntax — T.S.Eliot > < it is now widely agreed that such compositions as Moby Dick and Billy Budd are complete designs — Nathalia Wright > < the main designs of the poem, an imaginative control of dispersed material — Times Literary Supplement > d. < his ad-libbing … is not unfortified by design because he is far too fine a professional ever to trust entirely to chance — John Mason Brown > < whether or not there be a design, … in nature, a man's biography frequently discloses haunting glimpses of a pattern — Perry Miller > 6. a. < systematic art instruction begins with the study of design, which includes little except the perception and creation of formal relations — Hunter Mead > < made her decide to introduce choreographic design into her free skating — Current Biography > b. < industrial design > < included in design are the arrangement of the basic text page, choice of typeface, title page, and special pages — Joseph Blumenthal > specifically < the design of the ship's bridge > < his experiments were noted for their simple design > < the problems of stability were corrected by better design in duplicating equipment — R.O.Jordan > c. < unacceptable to our sense of melodic design — P.H.Lang > < inflated music with ambitious and mystical programmatic designs — Nicolas Slonimsky > 7. a. < linoleum in a great number of designs > < the designs on the reverse of our coins > < an iron balustrade with a design of bows and arrows that rises from the eaves of the house — American Guide Series: Maine > b. < porcelain with carved or engraved floral designs > < a gold-tooled design impressed on bookbindings > Synonyms: see intention, plan III. < the design speed of a highway > |
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