Abstract

(verb.) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically.

(verb.) consider apart from a particular case or instance; 'Let's abstract away from this particular example'.

(verb.) give an abstract (of).

(adj.) existing only in the mind; separated from embodiment; 'abstract words like `truth' and `justice'' .

(adj.) dealing with a subject in the abstract without practical purpose or intention; 'abstract reasoning'; 'abstract science' .

(adj.) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; 'a large abstract painting' .

乔茜录入

• We see again here, as in the case of Thales, th at the love of abstract thought, the pursuit of science as science, did not interfere with ultimate practical applications. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• We endeavoured in vain to abstract Clara from this deplorable scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But general also means abstract, or detached from all specific context. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Truthful we both were; he from pride and courage, I from a sort of abstract ideality. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Names give abstract meanings a physical locus and body. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• His face was incandescent in its abstract earnestness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• John Rokesmith read his abstracts aloud. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is due to rapid evaporation, which in changing the water from a liquid to a gaseous form, abstracts heat from the hands. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• My Lady carelessly and scornfully abstracts her attention. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• That didn't answer very well; and then I began to state cases for them, and make abstracts, and that sort of work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• They say, when he was a little boy, he made an abstract of 'Hop o' my Thumb,' and he has been making abstracts ever since. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mr. Weller was in a very abstracted and contemplative mood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Hale sipped his tea in abstracted silence; Margaret had the responses all to herself. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That he laid his other hand upon the Doctor's arm, causing him to look up with an abstracted air. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In the same way, not the smallest morsel of property belonging to the proprietors of the house had been abstracted. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He was not in general a lady's man, though all ladies liked him; something of a book-worm he was, near-sighted, spectacled, now and then abstracted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• What are you thinking of to make you look so abstracted? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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