| 单词 | utilitarian |
| 释义 | util·i·tar·i·an I. 1. < the original utilitarians … believed that each individual was the best judge of his own welfare — E.S.Griffith > 2. II. 1. a. < on the utilitarian theory of obligation all duties are subordinate to one: maximize good consequences — O.A.Johnson > < first exponent of utilitarian political theory — Times Literary Supplement > b. < utilitarian philosophers > 2. < love of truth for its own sake is … becoming rarer in this hasty utilitarian age — M.R.Cohen > < a utilitarian culture > 3. a. < humanistic vs. utilitarian education — J.E.Tobin > < a utilitarian point of view > b. (1) < her dark abundant hair was skewered into a utilitarian knob — Edna Ferber > < an essentially utilitarian and only accidentally aesthetic end — Stanley Morison > < utilitarian steel tables > (2) < utilitarian narrowness > < a utilitarian indifference to art > c. < a utilitarian people who are concerned more with getting on in the world and seducing women than with theology and a decent meal — Thomas Sugrue > |
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