Constituent

(noun.) (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction.

(noun.) a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes; 'needs continued support by constituents to be re-elected'.

(adj.) constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) .

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• The best known constituent of the air is oxygen, already familiar to us as the feeder of the fire without and within the body. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The ability of the electric current to decompose a liquid and to deposit a metal constituent has practically revolutionized the process of printing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Another constituent of the air with which we are familiar is carbon dioxide. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Other plant products, such as nuts, have fat as their most abundant food constituent. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Thus the great masses,--earth, a ir, fire, water,--assumed as simple by many philosophers from the earliest times, were resolving in to their constituent parts. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• After one has gone through the process, the constituent qualities and relations are elements, each possessed with a definite meaning of its own. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It was thus that he studied the transfer of certain of the constituent parts of bodies by the action of electricity. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The Swedish investigator Scheele had, however, discovere d this same constituent of the air before 1773. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This substitute, however, was still obliged to account to his principal or constituent for the profits of the jurisdiction. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The substance almost universally used as a rapid artificial bleaching agent is chlorine, best known to us as a constituent of common salt. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A less familiar but more abundant constituent of the atmosphere is the nitrogen. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Davy showed, however, that this element is a constituent of many alkalis. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If the red light is compound, it will be broken up into its constituent parts and will form a typical spectrum of its own, just as white light did after its passage through a prism. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Yet the death of each of its constituent members is as certain as if an epidemic took them all at once. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Chemical analysis shows oleomargarine to have substantially the same constituents and in almost the identical proportions of pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• We may note here briefly the very various nature of the constituents of the British Empire in 1914. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Of all the vast group of salts, the most abundant as well as the most important is common salt, known technically as sodium chloride because of its two constituents, sodium and chlorine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• An electric current can separate a liquid into some of its various constituents and to deposit one of the metal constituents on the negative electrode. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Then this remarkable result came out, that however much a plant may otherwise differ from an animal, yet, in essential constituents the cellular constructure of animal and plant is the same. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It fell apart into its main constituents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Now I have time to think of it, he never saw one of his constituents in all his days, until we saw them together! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As a legislator, he affords a bright example of a genius soaring above corruption, and continually aiming at the happiness of his constituents. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The sunlight separates silver chloride into its constituents, silver and chlorine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• No genuine politician ever treats his constituents as reasoning animals. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Racemic acid, however, which is identical with tartaric acid in i ts chemical constituents, is optically inactive, rotating the plane of polarized light n either to the right nor the left. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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