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/ˌdɛf.ɪˈnɪʃ.ən/ 名词 B1中文： 定义、释义、定意、下定意
- A statement of the meaning of a word, word group, sign, or symbol; especially, a dictionary definition. · Your definition of "elephant" needs to be more precise than "a big animal with large ears".
- A clear instance conforming to the dictionary or textbook definition.
- A statement expressing the essential nature of something; formulation.
- The action or process of defining.
- The act of defining; determination of the limits.
- A product of defining.
- The action or power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear. · Her comic genius is beyond definition.
- Clarity of visual presentation, distinctness of outline or detail. · The definition of a telescope.· Improve the definition of an image.
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Not that Anne could have put her feelings on the matter into just such clear definition.
Wickham--when she read, with somewhat clearer attention, a relation of events which, if true, must overthrow every cherished opinion of his worth, and which bore so alarming an affinity to his own history of himself--her feelings were yet more acutely painful and more difficult of definition.
“It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”
A compromise was necessary, a deliberate choice to favor the emotional resonance over strict adherence to the literal dictionary definition.
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