| 单词 | method |
| 释义 | meth·od I. 1. a. obsolete b. (1) < the pragmatic method tries to interpret each notion by tracing its respective practical consequences — William James > < the dialectical method assumes the primacy of matter > < the method of the positivists applied to philosophy the procedures of the natural sciences > (2) (3) < the historical method > < the method of logic > < exploring the broadest possibilities of iconographic method — Harry Bober > (4) < the lecture method > < a course in methods > (5) < hadn't found his method, but he had definitely found his theme — Graham Greene > < method … can be determined only from the work as a whole — M.K.Spears > < method and sensibility ought never … to be kept long separate — R.P.Blackmur > c. (1) < there are three methods of touring Britain by car — Richard Joseph > < found their respective working methods congenial — Current Biography > < often slow in their business methods — T.R.Ybarra > < to whom she owed her excellent method — Opera News > (2) < deeply professional, learned in the art of the novel, heavily armed with method — J.D.Scott b. 1917 > 2. a. < the book is completely lacking in method > b. obsolete (1) (2) (3) c. < thrift was as much in her nature as method — Sylvia T. Warner > < time enough to do everything if only you used method — Angela Thirkell > Synonyms: < the crude methods of trial and error — Henry Suzzallo > < the method of this book is to present a series of successive scenes of English life — G.M.Trevelyan > < Marx's doctrine is not a system of scientific truths, it merely represents a method — one possible approach to social and historical reflection — Paolo Milano > < surely not to leave to fitful chance the things that method and system and science should order and adjust — B.N.Cardozo > mode, sometimes interchangeable with method, seldom implies order or logic, suggesting rather custom, tradition, or personal preference < a rational mode of dealing with the insane — W.R.Inge > < this intuition is essentially an aesthetic mode of apprehension — H.J.Muller > < the mode of reproduction of plants and animals, however, is fundamentally identical — Encyc. Americana > manner usually suggests a personal or peculiar course or procedure, often interchanging with mode in this sense < the manner by which the present pattern of land ownership in this country has evolved — A.F.Gustafson > < it is not consistent with his manner of writing Latin — G.C.Sellery > < bearing loaves of sweet bread and of cornbread made with yeast in the Portuguese manner — Dana Burnet > way is general and interchangeable with method, mode, or manner < a special way to raise orchids > < the way the machine works > < the town's way of life > < one's way of tying his tie > fashion, in this comparison, may be distinguished from way in often suggesting a more superficial origin or source as in a mere fashion or ephemeral style < was so popular that his subjects took to wearing monocles, in his fashion — Time > < Harvard has stoutly and successfully resisted the fashion by which the grounds of an American college have come to be known as a campus — Official Register of Harvard University > < who were poor in a fashion unknown to North America — Herbert Agar > system suggests a fully developed, often carefully formulated method, usually emphasizing the idea of rational orderliness < every new discovery claims to form an addition to the system of science as transmitted from the past — Michael Polanyi > < behavior which is not in accord with the individual's system elicits responses of fear — Ralph Linton > < an earnest plea for radical reformation of the system of assessment and taxation — C.A.Duniway > II. |
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