| 单词 | significance |
| 释义 | significance (sɪgnɪfɪkəns ) uncountable noun The significance of something is the importance that it has, usually because it will have an effect on a situation or shows something about a situation. Ideas about the social significance of religion have changed over time. [+ of] A sacred site might be a mountain that is of some significance to a tribe. Synonyms: importance, import [formal], consequence, matter Collocations: constitutional significance He occupied an office of considerable constitutional significance. Times, Sunday Times More successfully than any other institution on the planet, it has combined medieval grandeur and constitutional significance with celebrity appeal. Times, Sunday Times We should be satisfied with no less for a bill of constitutional significance. Times, Sunday Times Addressing the media outside the court just after the ruling yesterday, the 51-year-old investment manager said that this was a case of major constitutional significance. Times, Sunday Times The gift of service represents a desire to invest more of our future in that which has eternal significance. Christianity Today (2000) The sacred place is the place where the life of the tribe is endowed with an eternal significance. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Each day of our lives has eternal significance. Christianity Today (2000) It's the shape of things to come and a car that will have historical significance. The Sun (2008) Rome is overflowing with buildings of historical significance, some going back thousands of years. Times, Sunday Times (2012) He has acquired works of great historical significance. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Maybe the plant evoked a special memory, or was of particular significance, to the person who left it. Times, Sunday Times (2007) In the one-day series at the end of the northern summer, their meetings took on particular significance. Times, Sunday Times (2013) Do you want to ask yourself about the points which had particular significance in your life? Why am I Afraid to Grieve (1994) Clearly, she had some kind of ritual or social significance - this was an early example of social stratification. Times, Sunday Times (2017) The post-industrial revolution period was one of those great historical periods in which ideas took on social significance. The Making of Neoclassical Economics (1990) It spoke of " carrying through work that has also an obvious social significance '. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003) The idea that grammatical gender should bear real social significance is intuitively attractive. The Times Literary Supplement Couture, she says, has a special significance. Times, Sunday Times (2014) For the artist, a volcano has a special symbolic significance. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Copyright law is of special significance to denominational leaders. Christianity Today (2000) Living trees in the churchyard have also come to take on spiritual significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On countless homepages, as well as in several gift books, every facet of the cane's construction was attributed spiritual significance. Christianity Today For one thing, it reminds us all of the spiritual significance of the event. Christianity Today He told me of the spiritual significance of the haj to him personally, and described the sequence of events that would make up the pilgrimage. Times, Sunday Times It was a secular item rather than of spiritual significance, they stated. Times, Sunday Times The statistical significance of the findings increases with each abnormal result. Times, Sunday Times (2015) But the size of the study was such that this result reaches statistical significance only narrowly. Times, Sunday Times (2008) More cases than controls had lupus nephritis, cerebritis, thrombocytopenia but the differences did not reach statistical significance. 2010, 'Herpes Zoster Infections in SLE in a University Hospital in Saudi Arabia: Risk Factors and Outcomes', Autoimmune Diseases The number of awakenings was slightly higher in the idiopathic hypersomnia group, but there was no statistical significance. 2012, 'Clinical and Polysomnographic Comparison between Narcolepsy without Cataplexy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia', Sleep Medicine Research Their proviral load was also higher, although this elevation did not reach statistical significance. 2018, 'IFNG +874A/T Polymorphism Among Asymptomatic HTLV-1-Infected Individuals Is Potentially Related to a Worse Prognosis', Frontiers in Microbiology Uniquely in the genres of war literature, the letter has strategic significance. The Times Literary Supplement During the interwar period, the yard had strategic significance, and two submarines were built there. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Owing to its strategic significance, this city was, until recently, officially closed to foreign visitors. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite these improvements the fort's strategic significance gradually decreased. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In reality, posting the bishop here has a deep strategic significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other theses in the historiography stress the significance of the battle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also stressed the significance of infantilism and what appear to be excessive demands on the analyst and everyone else. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The indecs framework stresses the significance of relationships, which lie at the heart of the indecs analysis. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unfortunately, her symbolic significance didn't translate into success during her lifetime. Christianity Today The depth chaps want to understand the hooks and provocations of anger and their symbolic significance. Times, Sunday Times For the artist, a volcano has a special symbolic significance. Times, Sunday Times Grand funerals, ornate and spectacular, part-mourning and part-celebration, offer odd punctuation marks in our history, moments of deep symbolic significance that do not actually change anything. Times, Sunday Times Getting rid of these self-awarded perks may be of mainly symbolic significance, but it sends a signal that more serious forms of feather-bedding will not do. Times, Sunday Times Amid the flux of everyday life, we frequently lack the time, wherewithal, and energy to consider the theological significance of everything we encounter. Christianity Today Similarly, this attention spurred increased scrutiny of its theological significance. The Times Literary Supplement To accomplish this task, he incorporated puns and onomatopoeia in order to emphasize the theological significance of his poetic language. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One interpretation for the ant's theological significance coincides with its role historically. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Very few variants are contested among scholars, and few or none of the contested variants carry any theological significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Given the fraught geopolitical climate of the time, the rush to capitalize on this new technology took on tremendous significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the period of publication, a tremendous significance was associated with the encyclopedia. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The decree was of tremendous significance for the town as it freed its denizens from manual labor - a mandatory form of state service at that time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Parliamentarians didn't understand the significance of the proposed wage subsidy for unskilled workers. ST He also fails to understand the significance of the poppy. Times, Sunday Times Today, we understand the significance of this truth even more deeply. Christianity Today I didn't understand the significance of what he was telling me. Times, Sunday Times But to understand the significance of the potential call-up you need to understand the sub-plot behind it. The Sun However, he also believes the text has a universal significance. Times, Sunday Times Lit only by candles, using scrounged props, starving actors performed a drama of universal significance, delicately poised between hope and despair. The Times Literary Supplement This resulted in a complex pantheon in which some deities remained only locally important while others developed more universal significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This cycle uses myth, legend, and spiritual elements to address more personal issues that are characterized by their universal significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She created and directed the movie with an intentional use of universal significance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 意义 Japanese: 重要性 |
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