(adj.) able to control or determine policy; 'a controlling interest in the firm' .
整理:莎丽
双语例句
The impulse under which I acted, the mood controlling me, were similar to the impulse and the mood which had induced me to visit the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
No, papa, I'm not nervous, said Eva, controlling herself, suddenly, with a strength of resolution singular in such a child. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
But in its case, the quality of the resulting knowledge is the controlling factor and not an incident of the activity. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
The pendulum of the controlling clock, in swinging to either side, makes a brief contact, which completes the circuit of a galvanic battery, and thus sends a current to the controlled clock. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The eighteenth century thus commenced with a practical knowledge of the power of steam and of means for controlling and working it. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
He himself happened to be a controlling, central part, the masses of men were the parts variously controlled. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Traction is then made on the chains controlling the jaws, which close; the grapple is hoisted to the surface and its contents discharged into scows alongside the dredge. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
They tend to act with the same controlling ideas, beliefs, and intentions, given similar circumstances. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
There is no passion, therefore, capable of controlling the interested affection, but the very affection itself, by an alteration of its direction. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
The Western Union Telegraph Company was a great corporation, controlling the telegraph business of the country. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Hitherto he had been in Medina organizing armies and controlling the general campaign. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The easy snap of the controlling switch on the electric burner gives a certain intensity of heat which remains at that temperature so long as the switch remains in that position. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
He used to say that the horrible hue and surface of her crape dress was most likely the sufficient controlling force. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
There is no controlling wind or wave. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Human beings control animals by controlling the natural stimuli which influence them; by creating a certain environment in other words. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
I was swinging quite close to the controlling devices, so I reached out to the lever that directed the rays of repulsion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
The action of the wings in folding and unfolding for maintaining the flight and controlling its direction, is then to be noted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
His inventions in this line were directed to the best means of utilising and controlling the force of springs, his motto being _ut tensio sic vis_, (as the tension is so is the force. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.