| 单词 | principle |
| 释义 | prin·ci·ple I. 1. a. < the principles of physics > b. (1) < a man of no principle > < the honorable principles to which my father reared me > (2) c. (1) < the principle of the internal-combustion engine > (2) 2. a. < the ancients recognized opposed governing principles as of heat and cold, moisture and dryness > b. < such principles of human nature as greed and curiosity > c. obsolete 3. obsolete a. principles plural b. 4. a. archaic b. < the bark contains a bitter principle used in medicine > < the active principle of this drug > 5. capitalized, Christian Science < the triune Principle of Life, Truth, and Love > Synonyms: < the principle of free speech > < his remarkable grasp of principle in the remaining field, that of historical geography — Benjamin Farrington > < the same hankering as their pious ancestors for a cozy universe, a closed system of certainties erected upon a single principle — H.J.Muller > < the principle was established that no officer or employee … was entitled to any classified information whatever unless it was necessary for the performance of his duties — J.P.Baxter b.1893 > < I do not mean to assert this pedantically as an absolute rule, but as a principle guiding school authorities — Bertrand Russell > axiom in an older sense applies to a principle not open to dispute because self-evident, usually one upon which a structure of reasoning is or may be erected; in more common current usage it implies a principle universally accepted or regarded as worthy of acceptance rather than one necessarily true < the journalistic axiom that there is nothing as dead as yesterday's newspaper — G.W.Johnson > < one of the axioms of United States business is that efficiency is increased by specialization — Time > fundamental usually applies to a principle, but sometimes a fact, so essential to a philosophy, religion, science, or art that its rejection would destroy the intellectual structure resting upon it < the fundamentals of scientific research > < the fundamentals of Christian belief > < the simple economics fundamental that mechanization is the secret of America's greatness — advt > law in this comparison applies to a formulation stating an order or relation of phenomena which is regarded as always holding good < the conquest of nature's procreative forces, through the discovery of the laws of agriculture and animal husbandry — R.W.Murray > < the laws of the rain and of the seasons here are tropic laws — Marjory S. Douglas > < it is a law that no two electrons may occupy the same orbit — A.S.Eddington > theorem applies to a proposition that admits of rational proof and, usu., is logically necessary to succeeding logical steps in a structure of reasoning < theoretical economics puts the patterns of uniformity in a coherent system [of which] the basic propositions are called assumptions or postulates, the derived propositions are called theorems — Oscar Lange > < the error that was to prove most durable of all, the theorem that only a very short land traverse would be found necessary from Missouri to Pacific waters — Bernard DeVoto > • - in principle II. archaic |
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