Abstraction

(noun.) a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples.

(noun.) the act of withdrawing or removing something.

(noun.) an abstract painting.

(noun.) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances.

(noun.) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance; 'he loved her only in the abstract--not in person'.

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• I beg your pardon,' said the Dodger, looking up with an air of abstraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Mr. Mallard departed to execute his commission; and Serjeant Snubbin relapsed into abstraction until Mr. Phunky himself was introduced. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He looked at the two, less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy abstraction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• But politics was a personal drama without meaning or a vague abstraction without substance. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As the years went on, she lost more and more count of the world, she seemed rapt in some glittering abstraction, almost purely unconscious. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Do what he would, he fell into such a mood of abstraction that Gowan said again, 'I am very much afraid my mother has bored you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But when the new element requires especial attention, random reaction is the sole recourse unless abstraction is brought into play. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In this state of abstraction he found himself, the following morning, waking to the reality of a stifling September day in New York. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Fanny was too well aware of it to have anything to say; and they walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence and abstraction. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Bradley leaned his elbows on his knees, and his head upon his hands, and looked at the fire with a most intent abstraction. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Idealism creates an abstraction and then shudders at a reality which does not answer to it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Another short fit of abstraction followed, when, shaking it off, she thus attacked her companion. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• A certain peace, an abstraction possessed his soul. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There seem to be two great aims in the philosophy of Plato,--first, to realize abstractions; secondly, to connect them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• What they really are you and I know inwardly by using abstractions and living our lives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As I have had to abstract from life in order to communicate, so you are compelled to animate my abstractions, in order to understand. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Scarcely a substance herself, she grapples to conflict with abstractions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But once I attempt to give that inwardness expression, I must use the only weapons I have--abstractions, theories, phrases. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Abstractions are not cloaks, nor wax figures, nor walls, nor vessels, and life doesn't flow like water. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The man of science in developing his abstractions is like a manufacturer of tools who does not know who will use them nor when. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• I am not a poet; I cannot live with abstractions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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