| 单词 | disposition |
| 释义 | dis·po·si·tion 1. a. < received the law by the disposition of angels — Acts 7:53 (Authorized Version) > b. < saw to the disposition of all surplus goods by shipment to needy countries > < the disposition of the garbage was always a problem > : the power of so placing, giving, ridding oneself of, relinquishing, or doing with as one wishes : discretionary control — used especially in the phrase at the disposition of; specifically c. < the disposition of the parts of his argument made his speech forceful and tidy > < the disposition of the artillery was shown on the map > 2. a. < with large blue eyes that … showed her thoughts and dispositions — Hugh Walpole > < woke up in a nasty disposition > : the complex of attitudes, proclivities, and responses conditioning conduct : propensity < his disposition was to make the worst of bad fortune > < conservatism with them is not so much a program as a disposition or attitude or temper — Daniel Aaron > : temperamental makeup < a man of broad sympathies and a genial disposition > b. (1) obsolete (2) archaic c. < the disposition of sugar to dissolve in water > < the disposition to war or to peace in human societies seems to be a matter of economic, political, social, and psychological structurings of the society itself — Weston LaBarre > 3. 4. dispositions plural < the general perfected his dispositions for the campaign > 5. < boys 12 to 16 who were sent to his ward for routine observation pending disposition by the courts — Charles Grutzner > Synonyms: < ages of fierceness have overlaid what is naturally kindly in the dispositions of ordinary men and women — Bertrand Russell > < the taint of his father's insanity perhaps appeared in his unbalanced disposition — E.S.Bates > complexion blends together notions involving mood and attitude and ideas about ways of thinking < the rationalist mind, radically taken, is of a doctrinaire and authoritative complexion: the phrase ‘must be’ is ever on its lips — William James > < great thinkers of various complexion, who differing in many fundamental points, all alike assert the relativity of truth — Havelock Ellis > temperament may suggest individual proclivities, especially as colored by feeling and emotion and especially in matters social or creative < the electric amenities that pass between artistic temperaments at different tensions still find free play — J.L.Lowes > < melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament … a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy — James Joyce > personality stresses those traits the composite of which tends to individualize one in his society, often those which attract, which give popularity, ready appeal, or decisive or compelling interest < the personality of the brilliant secretary of the treasury is not clearly defined. The inner man … is unfortunately neglected — J.C.Miller > < by sheer personality he has so far propped up a somewhat artificial arrangement with the smaller parties — Economist > individuality stresses an individualizing and distinguishing composite of traits < an individuality, a style of its own — Willa Cather > < detected for the first time, beneath the dehumanized drudge, the stirrings of a separate and perhaps capricious individuality — Arnold Bennett > temper may indicate the frame of mind with which one makes choices and decisions, faces difficulties or problems, or controls and governs himself < a less dogmatic temper is becoming apparent among the scientists themselves — Irving Babbitt > < after four years of fighting, the temper of the victors was such that they were quite incapable of making a just settlement — Aldous Huxley > character may suggest the deep, fundamental, and established complex of moral traits, the genuine and lasting individualizing inner nature of a person < that inexorable law of human souls that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that determines character — George Eliot > < character, or what is fixed, hard, and resistant in human nature, cannot be expressed lyrically — Times Literary Supplement > |
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