| 单词 | perfect |
| 释义 | per·fect I. 1. < men more perfect in the use of arms — Shakespeare > — used chiefly in the phrase practice makes perfect 2. a. < a perfect technique > < a perfect gem > < a perfect crime > < must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect — Mt 5:48 (Revised Standard Version) > < a starched shirtfront … if it is not perfect is nothing — Robert Lynd > b. (1) < perfect circle > < only the stronger and more perfect parts of his music reach me — John Burroughs > < its cleavage is in perfect parallel with the base — Encyc. Americana > (2) < a perfect gentleman > < the perfect Christmas gift > < perfect money should be … endowed with unchanging purchasing power — Ludwig Von Mises > < we, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union — U.S. Constitution > (3) < a gas thermometer containing a perfect gas … would give readings directly on Kelvin's thermodynamic scale of temperature — L.C.Jackson > (4) < a perfect likeness > < record engineers … finally succeeded in giving us music that was acoustically perfect — E.T.Canby > specifically (5) < a perfect title > 3. a. < the dim trees below me were in perfect stillness — John Galsworthy > b. < have a perfect baby > < the memory of that night remained intact and perfect — Elinor Wylie > < complete justification of belief does not depend on … perfect knowledge — W.F.Hambly > c. obsolete < I fear I am not in my perfect mind — Shakespeare > d. < God possesses perfect power — Charles Hartshorne > < has a perfect right to use this division — James Jeans > < treats him like a perfect stranger > < looks like a perfect angel in her organdy pinafore > e. < a perfect little snob — Eugene Walter > < a perfect tirade of abuse — S.H.Holbrook > < the dog had been in a perfect frenzy, trying to get out — Erle Stanley Gardner > 4. obsolete < sons at perfect age — Shakespeare > 5. 6. obsolete a. < thou art perfect then, our ship hath touched upon … Bohemia — Shakespeare > b. < then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect — Shakespeare > 7. a. of an interval b. (1) (2) of a rhythmic mode 8. a. < a perfect lesion > < a perfect jellyfish > b. < the click beetle (the perfect stage of the wireworm) — Farming > c. II. 1. < art must be selective; nature must be perfected — G.C.Sellery > < rhetoric … seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves — R.M.Weaver > < laboratory methods for examining foods had been still further perfected — V.G.Heiser > 2. a. < arrangements we're perfecting to keep newspaper reporters from bothering you — Erle Stanley Gardner > < youthful leaners who desired to … perfect their education — H.O.Taylor > b. < to defeat the federal priority a lien … must be both specific and perfected — Harvard Law Review > c. 3. < the object of this society is … to perfect its members practically and scientifically — G.B.Cummings > Synonyms: see unfold III. chiefly dialect IV. 1. < the perfects go into one bag and the rejects into another — Listener > 2. a. b. |
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