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单词 pattern of behaviour
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pattern of behaviour
a. A regular and intelligible form or sequence discernible in certain actions or situations; esp. one on which the prediction of successive or future events may be based. Frequently with of, as pattern of behaviour (cf. behaviour pattern n. at behaviour n. Compounds 2), etc., or with prefixed modifying word.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > pattern (of behaviour, etc.)
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1883 Church Times 9 Nov. 813/3 He set a pattern of controversial violence at a time when tolerance was the lesson most needed by all parties.
1906 C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. Syst. v. 176 (caption) The cutaneous fields of the ‘scratch-reflex’, the ‘flexion-reflex’, the ‘extensor-thrust’, are areas which in nowise fit in with the pattern of the cutaneous fields of the afferent spinal roots.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out xxii. 366 According to him, too, there was an order, a pattern which made life reasonable.
1927 E. O'Neill Marco Millions iii. 152 The young boys and girls take up their censers and dance their pattern out backward, preceded by the musicians.
1933 H. G. Wells Shape of Things to Come iii. §6. 301 Old habits of thought, old values, old patterns of conduct.
1945 T. S. Eliot What is a Classic? 32 Each literature has its greatness, not in isolation, but because of its place in a larger pattern, a pattern set in Rome.
1951 J. M. Fraser Psychol. iii. xx. 236 Different patterns of relationships will develop according to what kind of task the group happens to be engaged in.
1968 P. B. Weiz Elem. Zool. viii. 123/2 A given external stimulus usually leads to the completion of several or many simultaneous reflex responses, all occurring as a single, integrated pattern of activity.
1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 17/4 Oz also observes the potential absurdity in this pattern of thinking.
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