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单词 self-reflection
释义 self-reˈflection
[self- 1 a, 3 a.]
1. Reflection or image of oneself. Obs.
1636Davenant Plat. Lovers ii. i. D 4, The fam'd Antipheron, whom once the learned Stagerite Admir'd so for the selfe-reflection that He wore like to his perfect Image still where hee mov'd.
2. Censure or reproof of oneself. Obs.
1681Owen ϕρονηµα του Πνευµατος i. iv. Wks. 1852 VII. 307 We can omit and lose such..opportunities..without regret or self-reflection.1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. Ded., They can hear the call to church, and see others go, and yet stay at home without any self-reflections.
3. Reflection, meditation, or serious thought as to one's character, actions, motives, etc.
c1670O. Heywood Script. Fast in Autobiog. (1881) II. 332 How usefull is this self-reflexion in order to a fast.1691Hartcliffe Mor. & Int. Virtue 285 Self-Reflection, the best means to an impartial judgment of things, will take place, and the true voice of Conscience will be heard.1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 99 A moment's steady self-reflection will show us, that in the simple determination ‘black is not white’..all the powers are implied that distinguish man from animals.a1882T. H. Green Proleg. Ethics §94 Self⁓reflection is the only possible method of learning what is the inner man or mind that our action expresses.
So self-reˈflective a., disposed to or characterized by self-reflection.
1879Expositor X. 87 In opposition to the Buddhist spirit of self-annihilation, he declares that the sympathetic are the most self-reflective.
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