| 单词 | consonant |
| 释义 | con·so·nant I. 1. 2. II. 1. < Fijians possessed a physical endurance consonant with their great stature — V.G.Heiser > < it is … more consonant with the Puritan temper to abolish a practice than to elevate it — A.T.Quiller-Couch > 2. 3. < consonant words > 4. 5. Synonyms: < the book presented meditations which were so consonant with Christian views that its Christian readers from Alfred to Dante mistook them for Christian sentiments — H.O.Taylor > < even the man's start and suspicious stare as the priest went by were consonant enough with the vigilance and jealousy of such a type — G.K.Chesterton > The implications of consistent are much the same, although it may tend to suggest accord on small details in addition to main matters < Father John did not think it to be consistent with his dignity to answer this sally — Anthony Trollope > < I have decided that the course of conduct which I am following is consistent with my sense of responsibility as president in time of war — F.D.Roosevelt > compatible indicates capacity for existing together without discord or conflict, although not necessarily in positive agreement or harmony < all systems of economy that are to be compatible with man's continual adaptation to a changing world must employ both the principle of order and that of freedom — M.R.Cohen > < in ordinary society it is notoriously difficult for people of very unequal fortune to be friends in the true sense; that beautiful relationship is not compatible with patronage and dependence — H.J.Mackinder > congruous suggests a more positive harmony, a suitability of things likely to make for a pleasant impression < thoughts congruous to the nature of their subject — William Cowper > < the doctrine is not always quite congruous with itself — Havelock Ellis > congenial is likely to imply pleasing concord or satisfying harmony < I was brought up in the freer, less conventional atmosphere of South Australia, and this English life, with its proprieties and its primness, is not congenial to me — A. Conan Doyle > < the ideal of a Greek democracy was vastly congenial to his aristocratic temperament — V.L.Parrington > sympathetic may apply to a milder appeal or to a less hearty acceptance, but it always indicates a strong tendency toward concord < a semimystical, sympathetic harmony between husband and wife — Norman Cameron > < thus a tête-à-tête with a man of similar tastes, who is just and yet sympathetic, critical yet appreciative … this is a high intellectual pleasure — A.C.Benson > |
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