Fitness

(noun.) the quality of being suitable; 'they had to prove their fitness for the position'.

(noun.) the quality of being qualified.

(noun.) good physical condition; being in shape or in condition.

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• What can the fitness of things mean, if not their fitness to a man's expectations? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Following it out to blissful results, he had descried, without self-commendation, a fitness in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Justice, in her decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by more extensive views. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It but remains for this council to command, and Tal Hajus must prove his fitness to rule. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Side wheel steamers for inland waters, and screw propellers for sea service, however, in time established their fitness for their respective scenes of action. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Chieftains, continued Lorquas Ptomel, shall the jeddak, Tal Hajus, prove his fitness to rule over Tars Tarkas? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• There was a fitness of things in the whole that carried conviction with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He said that General Halleck seemed so much to distrust his fitness for the position he was in that he thought somebody else ought to be there. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There seems a fitness in the arrangement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Differences of opinion must exist between the best of friends as to policies in war, and of judgment as to men's fitness. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I learned from your papers that you were my father, my creator; and to whom could I apply with more fitness than to him who had given me life? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• They are only regarded as means to an end, and please me in proportion to their fitness for that end. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The officer who has the command, however, should be allowed to judge of the fitness of the officers under him, unless he is very manifestly wrong. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• There was a fitness in that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I will show some respect for the eternal fitness of things. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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