| 单词 | converse |
| 释义 | con·verse I. intransitive verb 1. obsolete < impurities … contracted by conversing to and fro in a defiling world — Robert Boyle > 2. obsolete 3. archaic < he had … conversed so much with money — Henry Fielding > 4. obsolete < to seek the distant hills and there converse with nature — James Thomson †1748 > < Indians … conversed with the islands near them — Daniel Defoe > 5. < they conversed like gentlemen, about the racing season, the hunting, the new roads — Stark Young > transitive verb obsolete Synonyms: see speak II. 1. obsolete a. b. c. 2. < a freedom to resolve difference by converse — Julian Huxley > < some perception of the … intimate converse between instructor and student — Allen Johnson > 3. obsolete III. < deduction … runs not from the indubitable data to one's theoretical conclusions, but in the converse direction, from the theory back to the facts — F.S.C.Northrop > : that is the converse of something : with the principal terms transposed < Socrates, while he said that the true tragic writer was also an artist in comedy, did not lay down the converse proposition that the true comic writer is also an artist in tragedy — Samuel Alexander > • con·verse·ly IV. 1. < “a rainy day and a clear night” is the converse of “a clear day and a rainy night” > as a. b. < the converse of “no S is P” is “no P is S” and of “some S is P” is “some P is S” > — distinguished from contrary 2. < proclaim him moral, as well as wise, and the pleasing converse every-way of his disgraced cousin — George Meredith > Synonyms: < the relation of wife to husband is called the converse of the relation of husband to wife — Bertrand Russell > < the words “I need you” are as potent as ever, and Anthony Gilfillan had made a slip in psychology when he imagined that the converse “You need me” would weigh much — William McFee > < if the man stood to profit he would offer his services; if the converse were true he would avoid any involvement > Applied to the two faces of a coin or medal, obverse refers to the face containing the head and the principal inscription, reverse to the other. In strict transfer of this use, obverse may signify the more apparent and intentionally conspicuous side or face of anything, reverse the less apparent or less conspicuous side; in common use, however, obverse and reverse are used alike to refer to the other side or face of anything or to the opposite of anything < good and evil are but the obverse and reverse sides of the same shield — M.J.Herskovits > < love means discrimination and preference, and the obverse of that is natural aversion — M.R.Cohen > < their rise was merely the obverse of the Empire's fall — A.J.Toynbee > < on one side of the sheet was the title; on the reverse, the dedication > V. |
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