| 单词 | thought-defect |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthought-defect (a) In nouns that are more or less ad hoc formations, as thought-coop, thought-defect, thought-laboratory, thought-manufactory, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > absence of thought > [noun] > defect in thinking thought-defect1637 1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus i. B iv b Dispute not..your owne thought-defects. 1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. 164 From the time of the Aristophanes thought-shop to the great German establishment, or thought-manufactory. 1870 N. Porter Human Intellect (ed. 4) ii. vi. 357 There are sense-parts and sense-wholes, representative-parts and representative-wholes, and thought-parts and thought-wholes. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows (1886) 309 His importation of the French theory of the couplet as a kind of thought-coop did nothing but mischief. 1910 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 21 310 Psychoanalysis..has its point of departure in the principle that the symptoms of these diseases are only the sensory images of particular thought-constellations, impregnated with feeling, which were distasteful to consciousness and therefore repressed, forgotten, but still live on in the unconscious. 1947 P. Grainger Let. 21 May in All-round Man (1994) 211 And Balfour said, on the same thought-theme: ‘The harmonium is such an intermittent instrument.’ 1962 Galaxy Oct. 12/2 The telepathic monitors, both robotic and human, kept every thought-band under surveillance by random sampling. 2006 Guardian 21 Jan. (Review section) 10/5 Snazzily up to the minute on the latest findings from the eldritch thought-laboratories of philosophers. < as lemmas |
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