| 单词 | valid |
| 释义 | val·id 1. a. < a valid deed > < a valid covenant > < a valid title > < where a client has no valid ground for divorce — H.S.Drinker > < exempt from the natural laws which may be valid for lesser creatures — Ritchie Calder > b. < the synod also declared that the only valid baptism was by immersion — K.S.Latourette > 2. a. < the above theory was tested experimentally … and was proved to be valid — H.G.Armstrong > < particular grievances call … for the formulation of universally valid reasons why they should be redressed — Aldous Huxley > < find no valid evidence for such suspensions — W.R.Inge > < a valid argument > < a valid purpose > b. of an inference 3. a. < literary scholarship has its own valid methods — René Wellek & Austin Warren > < the written word was no longer a valid medium, the motion picture having supplanted it — Alexander Klein > < in finally finding her courage valid it had in the same moment vanished — Janet Terrace > b. < if the results of university matriculation examinations are a valid test — B.K.Sandwell > — compare reliable 4. a. b. 5. a. of a taxon b. of the publication of a taxon Synonyms: < mathematical symbols, which are valid whether there is anything corresponding to them in nature or not — W.R.Inge > < charges always valid in every age and country — J.A.Hobson > although a valid concept may have certain especially psychological limits < a “psychological fact” is valid for the person who holds it if for no other — F.J.Hoffman > sound, which may be applied to both persons and concepts, implies avoidance of fallacies, insufficient evidence, and hasty conclusions, and stresses solid foundation in fact or in reason or both, as well as the habit of clear and deliberate thought, often with an admixture of shrewed practical sense < much too sound a political thinker and too sagacious a party leader to rest his case upon abstract theory — V.L.Parrington > < good, sound reasons against the passionate conclusions of love — Joseph Conrad > cogent and convincing apply to ideas (less frequently, to persons) compelling mental assent, but cogent stresses a force resident in the argument or reasoning, as inevitability or conclusiveness, as well as succinct and lucid presentation < the most cogent argument for freedom — man's tremendous innate variability — E.W.Sinnott > < the most cogent political comment of the year — G.W.Johnson > whereas a convincing argument, speaker, or book may convince by either sound reasoning or by skillful selection and presentation < there are other ways of making a thing … convincing … besides merely appealing to one's logic and sense of fact — Irving Babbitt > convincing is often applied to fictional creations having the flavor of reality < in Aristophanes you have the convincing hurly-burly, the sweating, mean, talented, scrambling, laughing life of the Mediterranean — J.J.Chapman > telling suggests an immediate and crucial effect striking at the essence of the point, idea, or sentiment to be conveyed regardless of the validity of the cause < certainly makes some telling points … with a deftness that will disarm orthodox heresy-hunters — M.R.Cohen > < paused as if to edit his woes and select the most telling ones — Norman Mailer > |
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