单词 | notion |
释义 | no·tion 1. a. (1) < my notion of the country gentleman of the 17th century — T.B.Macaulay > < have no adequate notion of what we mean by causation — Edward Sapir > < outraged her mother's notions of economic and amorous propriety — New York Times > < her notion of a delta was a lot of channels and islands — C.S.Forester > (2) obsolete (3) obsolete (4) < the meaning of the notion law > b. < introduced the notion of organism into the world of minute beings — A.N.Whitehead > < the notion of an established body of alphabetical symbols — Charlton Laird > < arriving at the notion of law — Irving Babbitt > c. (1) Lockeanism (2) Berkeleianism < it must be owned at the same time that we have some notion of soul, spirit, and the operations of the mind, such as willing, loving, hating, inasmuch as we know or understand the meaning of these words — George Berkeley > (3) (4) Kantianism 2. a. < had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised — Robertson Davies > < disliked this notion of begging of strange people — Pearl Buck > < this notion of a basically honest mankind — L.A.Fiedler > < man's notions about his history have altered tremendously — L.C.Eiseley > b. (1) < it's a queer notion of the old gentleman — George Meredith > — often used in the phrase take a notion < took the notion of having a ball in costume — Winston Churchill > < rocks their ancestors had taken a notion to — Willa Cather > (2) < don't go getting any notions into your head — Maeve Brennan > < get notions before he was fifty — Jean Stafford > < some of it was just notions that the poor woman had got into her head — B.A.Williams > c. dialect chiefly Britain 3. a. obsolete b. < has not the least notion of what it's all about > < has no more notion of how to run a business than a child > < had no notion … that you analysed people like that — Walter de la Mare > 4. a. b. notions plural Synonyms: see idea |
随便看 |
英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。