| 单词 | effective |
| 释义 | ef·fec·tive I. 1. a. < an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation — Lewis Mumford > < a new organization which would be strong where the league had been weak, … effective where the league had been fumbling — G.L.Kirk > < his arm was too badly injured to deliver an effective blow — L.C.Douglas > b. < at 26,000 feet none are able to retain effective consciousness … without oxygen — C.H.Best & N.B.Taylor > 2. a. < the countries represented had virtually all the effective power in the world — M.W.Straight > < his effective career began inauspiciously > b. < persons who will do nothing unless they get something out of it for themselves are often highly effective persons of action — G.B.Shaw > c. < an effective if not eloquent preacher — E.W.Knight > < equally effective in portraiture, landscape, and still life — Current Biography > d. < a most effective substitute for the conventional Christmas tree — American Guide Series: Louisiana > 3. a. < his handwriting was still so bad he couldn't take effective notes — Sloan Wilson > < the effective value of our annual income for scholarship endowment has been diminished — J.B.Conant > b. < the fort was held by about 100 effective soldiers > 4. < committed the blunder of confusing the increased load of equipment and the increased expenditure with the quantity of effective work done — Lewis Mumford > < the number of effective wage earners, excluding workers absent for the whole of one week, fluctuated — Collier's Year Bk > < a gain in housing units in response to effective demand > 5. of a verb form or aspect 6. < the following resignations were accepted effective during the academic year under review — J.B.Conant > < the order was effective as of June 7 > 7. of the publication of a taxon 8. of a natural population Synonyms: < we are calling on men and women and property and money to join in making our defense effective — F.D.Roosevelt > < Bob had rebuked him after all, and his rebuke, though less hurtful than Sir James's, had been even more effective — Archibald Marshall > effectual may apply to what has accomplished an intended result and may approach the connotations of decisive < the powers of sovereignty and the eminent domain were ceded with the land. This was essential, in order to make it effectual, and to accomplish its objects — R.B.Taney > < an appeal to the emotions is little likely to be effectual before luncheon — W.S.Maugham > efficient may designate that which is actually operative; it may apply to smooth operation with a maximum of work or output accomplished with a minimum of effort < it should be obvious that it is the conditions producing the end effects which must be regarded as the efficient causes of them — M.F.A.Montagu > < a strong tendency to break up cumbersome estates into small, efficient farms — Allan Nevins and H.S.Commager > < since the steam engine requires constant care on the part of the stoker and engineer, steam power was more efficient in large units than in small ones: instead of a score of small units, working when required, one large engine was kept in constant motion — Lewis Mumford > efficacious may suggest possession of potent, powerful, or proper qualities productive of effective power < in their opinion, the flesh and blood of an enemy killed in battle is the most efficacious of all charms and makes a first-rate drug — J.G.Frazer > < the pained expression that he had long since found to be much more efficacious than anger — Edith Wharton > II. a. < the troop figure includes quartermasters, MPs, and signal, transportation, and medical corpsmen to a total of perhaps half its effectives — T.H.White b. 1915 > b. |
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