| 单词 | sense development |
| 释义 | > as lemmassense development sense development n. (a) development of the senses (sense 12a); (b) development of meaning or sense (sense 4a); an instance of this. ΚΠ 1866 C. W. R. Cooke Moral Gulph betwixt Man & Brute iii. 20 Causing men and women to educate their senses, and..selecting for intermarriage such only as came up to a certain standard as regarded sense development. 1882 J. A. H. Murray Let. in K. M. E. Murray Caught in Web of Words (1977) x. 190 Nobody exc[ept] my predecessors in specimens of the Dicty has yet tried to trace out historically the sense-development of English words. 1930 E. L. Young Philos. Reality vi. 135 A far clearer understanding both of our own sense-experience, and of the probable course of man's sense-development. 1960 C. S. Lewis Stud. in Words 29 The sense-development of the word proper..is a striking instance. 1985 Growth & Devel. iii. 65 Adults retain basic responses that reflect a baby's stage of sense development. 2012 J. Schultz 20th Cent. Borrowings from French to Eng. iii. i. 216 Some borrowings in this group show a sense development after their adoption into English. < as lemmas |
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