| 单词 | hard science |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard science b. Employing quantitative, objective, or rigorous analysis or testing; amenable to precise mathematical treatment or experimental verification or refutation; esp. in hard science. Cf. soft adj. 30b. ΚΠ 1858 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 29 Oct. 704/1 The Manchester Athenæum was the first association of the kind which recognised the propriety of educating the people by means of attractive literature... not by cramming philosophy and hard sciences into them. 1907 Dublin Jrnl. Med. Sci. 124 432 In the field of Preventive Medicine more than anywhere else are our practical methods based on hard science. 1968 Physics Bull. Oct. 351/2 One of the striking features of the present time is the penetration of ‘hard’ methods (quantitative, physical analyses) into subjects which were hitherto ‘soft’ (descriptive, non-numerical). 1999 L. Schiebinger Has Feminism Changed Sci.? ix. 160 We are told repeatedly that the physical sciences are hard and that the life sciences, like the humanities and social sciences, are soft. 2009 Financial Times 27 Nov. 13/1 Economists have always been keen to borrow principles from the hard sciences. < as lemmas |
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