| 单词 | reason |
| 释义 | reason I. reas·on II. rea·son 1. a. < gave reasons that were quite satisfactory > b. < will mention a reason for this situation > < the reason that this is so should now be clear > < a good reason to act as you do > < does not know the reason why > c. < brilliantly outlined the reasons that supported his client's action > d. < the reason for the tides lies in the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun > e. < that's a reason that you should keep in mind > 2. a. (1) < was afraid that his reason might be deranged > < must use reason to solve this problem > : the ability to trace out the implications of a combination of facts or suppositions < a reason that is far beyond her years > (2) < attempted to bring her to reason > (3) < was afraid she would lose her reason > b. (1) (2) (3) (4) c. < a transcendent ideal that only reason beyond experience can conceive — John Dewey > d. Aristotelianism (1) (2) (3) e. Scholasticism (1) (2) f. Kantianism & German idealism 3. logic 4. a. archaic b. archaic c. obsolete Synonyms: < the family side of the house is used for cooking, and for this reason visitors are invited to sit at the other end — Wilfred Thesiger > < for various reasons, the times and his own health included — J.C.Archer > < present illogical but forceful reasons for refusing an invitation > ground and grounds are often used interchangeably with reason and reasons but tend to apply to evidence, facts, data, reasoning used in defense rather than to motives or considerations, often suggesting a more solid support than reason < a ground for apprehension that is not unjustified — D.W.Brogan > < belittles the effectiveness of several provisions on the ground they are not new — Wall Street Journal > < the future as we see it offers no grounds for easy optimism — Current Biography > < objects to the statement on grounds that it reflects upon him personally — Monsanto Magazine > argument stresses the intent to convince or persuade, implying the use of evidence or reasoning in support of a contention or enhancement of the persuasive effect < hear the arguments for and against pacifism > < a good argument can be made for the position that economic integration is very difficult if it is tackled on its own side alone — Dean Acheson > < this book is an inquiry into the proper limitations upon freedom of speech, and is in no way an argument that any one should be allowed to say whatever he wants anywhere and at any time — Zechariah Chafee > < one of the commonest of all evasions; the argument which is not an argument but an appeal to the emotions — Virginia Woolf > < the best argument against vegetarianism is the Eskimos — Rudolf Flesch & A.H.Lass > proof implies conclusive logical demonstration but has come to mean any piece of evidence (as a fact or document), any testimony or argument that evokes a feeling of certainty in those who are to be convinced < Euclid, the author of the Elements, who gave irrefutable proofs of the looser demonstrations of his predecessors — Benjamin Farrington > < that he did not break under the terrible strain seems proof enough that he was sent by Providence to lead America to freedom — F.V.W.Mason > < laughter is supposed to be our affair and optimism a proof of our youth and our resilience — John Mason Brown > < left the house with a ton of conjecture, though without a grain of proof — Thomas Hardy > Synonyms: < the maintenance of reason — the establishment of criteria, by which ideas are tested empirically and in logic — Dorothy Thompson > < reason is logic; its principle is consistency; it requires that conclusions shall contain nothing not already given in their premises — H.M.Kallen > understanding may sometimes widen the scope of reason to include both most thought processes leading to comprehension and also the resultant state of knowledge < understanding is the entire power of perceiving and conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility; the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes — S.T.Coleridge > < philosophy is said to begin in wonder and end in understanding — John Dewey > intuition stresses quick knowledge or comprehension without orderly reason, thought, or cogitation < all this … I saw, not discursively, or by effort, or by succession, but by one flash of horrid simultaneous intuition — Thomas De Quincey > < do we not really trust these faint lights of intuition, because they are lights, more than reason, which is often too slow a councillor? — G.W.Russell > Used in connection with 19th century literary and philosophic notions, understanding often suggests the cold analytical order usually associated with reason and reason in turn suggests the spontaneity of intuition < the understanding was the faculty that observed, inferred, argued, drew conclusions … the cold, external, practical notion of life. … The reason was the faculty of intuition, warm, perceptive, immediate that represented the mind of young New England — Van Wyck Brooks > Synonym: see in addition cause. • - in reason - within reason - with reason III. reason intransitive verb 1. < is able to reason brilliantly > 2. a. obsolete b. < is someone you simply can't reason with > transitive verb 1. archaic a. < am in no humor to reason that point — Maria Edgeworth > b. (1) (2) < this boy … does reason our petition — Shakespeare > 2. < reasoned myself out of the instincts and rules by which one mostly surrounds oneself — W.B.Yeats > < reasoned her into believing what he said > 3. < reason out a plan > < the steadiness of a reasoned conviction — A.L.Guérard > Synonyms: see think |
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