| 单词 | fair |
| 释义 | fair I. 1. a. < the innkeeper had two fair daughters > < forever wilt thou love and she be fair — John Keats > < bedecked with garlands and flowers fair > < our fair city > < settle down in such a fair fat land and call good acres his own — Charles Kingsley > b. archaic < your servant, fair sir — Max Peacock > c. < the fair sex > < his fair companions > 2. < in an evil hour she trusted his fair promises > < trusted the enemy's fair words, and were immediately murdered — J.A.Froude > 3. a. < the fair life of ancient Athens > < a fair estate > < cheapening a fair cause with shabby tactics > b. < a fair proportion of the people … could read and write — G.M.Trevelyan > < a fair knowledge of English and a smattering of Latin — W.E.Smith > < made some fair guesses about the shape … of the universe — B.J.Bok > < a crop of scrub pine, grown already to a fair height — Ellen Glasgow > < received a grade of fair in English > < his work is only fair, certainly not distinguished > c. of livestock (1) (2) 4. a. < a sheet of fair white paper > b. of water, archaic c. < her fair name > d. (1) < easily deciphering the old manuscript written in a fair hand > (2) < no private bill is permitted to be sent up … until a certificate is endorsed on the fair printed bill — T.E.May > e. f. < fair rivet holes > 5. a. < a fair sky > < a fair day > b. 6. < fair … with great wavy masses of golden hair — Bram Stoker > 7. a. < you will find him a very fair man > < determined to win by fair means or foul > b. (1) < observers disagreed as to whether the blow was fair > < believes in fair play in sports and business > (2) of a baseball field (3) < a fair valuation > < a fair wage > (4) < the subject has received its fair share of attention > (5) < a fair assumption that regularities occur in history > < he has a fair complaint > (6) < a fair sample of his work > < that is not a fair example > c. < the hypocrite is fair game to the satirist > 8. a. (1) < his prospects of future wealth were exceedingly fair — Jane Austen > < in a fair way to realize a profit — Arnold Bennett > < its cultures and institutions seem fair to become stabilized — Clark Wissler > (2) of the wind < sailed for France with a fair wind > (3) of the tide b. < a fair bet that his team would win > 9. archaic 10. archaic 11. < a fair miracle > < a fair treat to watch him outsnob the snobs — New Republic > < when a fair month had elapsed I did meet him again — James Stephens > Synonyms: < a fair trial for all offenders > < a fair distribution of profits > < a fair judge in a criminal trial > < a fair estimate of his achievements > just stresses, more than fair, a disposition to conform with or conformity with the standard of what is right, true, or lawful, despite strong, especially personal, influences tending to subvert that conformity < a severe but just decision of the court > < a just estimate of her personal qualities > < a just statement of the facts > < he was just — but not charitable; he was magnanimous — but not tolerant — H.S.Commager > equitable implies fair and equal treatment of all concerned, suggesting often a less rigid standard than just, as one that provides relief where rigid adherence to law would make for unfairness < the equitable distribution of essential commodities — U.S. Dept. of State Bulletin > < develop an equitable and adequate tax structure throughout the country — Collier's Year Book > < techniques that will make for more equitable access to higher education and vocational opportunity — W.H.Hale > impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice in judgment < judges as a rule sincerely and ardently desire to be impartial and just — M.R.Cohen > < the law provides for the examination by neutral, impartial psychiatric experts of all persons indicted for a capital offense — Current Biography > unbiased emphasizes even more strongly than impartial the absence of prejudice, favoritism, or prepossession < to furnish the cabinet with unbiased and helpful advice on matters of state — R.M.Dawson > < it is difficult to convince the average spectator or juror that the law enforcement officer is an unbiased objective witness — Paul Wilson > dispassionate usually implies freedom from all unduly influencing feeling or preconception, often implying temperateness or coolness, even coldness, in judgment < the dispassionate study of history — John Baillie > < a dispassionate and objective description of the region — G.M.Foster > < an economic report studiously dispassionate in temper and analytic in mode — Robert Leckachman > uncolored stresses a freedom from influences as prejudices or impulses to dramatize or embellish that detract from truthfulness or accuracy, as of news report < it is often difficult to find a newspaper with uncolored accounts of the news > < to strive to give an uncolored report of one's experiences > objective implies a looking at something as apart, as disentangled from all personal feeling, prejudice, or opinion < he is not objective … but the slightest insight into historical processes to discover that objectivity, in the usual sense of that term, is unattainable in a serious political struggle — Philip Rahv > < it has no direct interest in the construction industry and could be expected to approach the problem from a purely objective standpoint — Housing & Home Finance Agency Technical Bulletin > < we shall be like ice when relating passions and adventures … we shall be … objective and impersonal — William Troy > Synonym: see in addition beautiful. • - fair to middling II. 1. a. < the sun shone fair > b. < the sheriff felt that he must speak the prisoner fair — C.W.Chesnutt > c. < play fair > d. < events promise fair > e. < write fair > 2. obsolete 3. < the torpedo had struck fair on the starboard side — Time > < the gabled houses leaned out over the streets, planted fair upon sturdy timbers — Lord Dunsany > < you could have thrashed a battleship fair down midstream — C.E.W.Bean > 4. < he fair spurned the earth with arrogance — J.H.Wheelright > < fair take one's breath away — David Hardman > < fair blinding you with headlights — Richard Llewellyn > III. transitive verb 1. obsolete 2. < fair a ship's lines > — often used with up or off < it'll take a lot of … cookery to fair out the hollows in your outline — Llewellyn Howland > 3. a. < an engine faired into a wing > < a radiator from another make car with the original hood faired into it — B.H.Scott > b. intransitive verb of the weather < it faired as the night went on — R.L.Stevenson > — often used with up or off < stopped on this porch till it faired up — Reader's Digest > < it's faired off … we'll have a clear day tomorrow — Jessamyn West > IV. 1. obsolete 2. archaic 3. archaic < fair befall thee — Shakespeare > • - for fair - no fair V. 1. a. < the village has a fair once a month — J.M.Mogey > b. < an agricultural fair > — see county fair c. < a book fair > < a shoe fair > 2. < a church fair > |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。