| 单词 | pure |
| 释义 | pure I. 1. a. of physical matter (1) < pure gold > < the purest silk obtainable > (2) < pure spring water rich in minerals > < pure food and abundant rest > (3) < a pure bubbling brook > < fresh pure linens > b. (1) (2) < pure harmony > < a pure interval > — compare tempered (3) c. of a vowel 2. a. (1) < acted so from pure necessity > < the purest malice > (2) < pure folly > b. (1) < pure science > < pure mechanics > (2) < pure literature > especially 3. a. (1) < the pure religion of our fathers > < a critic of pure if somewhat narrow taste > (2) < the pure and original text > < spoke a very pure French > b. < moved only by the purest feelings > < a pure and upright man > c. < a pure relationship between the sexes > d. (1) < a pure Arab horse > (2) < mice pure for the dilution factor > (3) e. obsolete f. g. < pure intuition > < pure ego > 4. chiefly dialect Synonyms: < the founders of American political democracy were not so naïvely devoted to pure theory that they were unaware of the necessity of cultural conditions for the successful working of democratic forms — John Dewey > < a wider opening of the hospitable American doors to the oppressed of Europe seemed to the divines and social reformers an exercise of pure magnanimity — Roger Burlingame > absolute may further emphasize lack of admixture or stress lack of dependence, relationship, or reservation < for Christianity aims at nothing less than absolute truth — W.R.Inge > < the obstinacy, the ferocity, the treachery of the aristocracy, had compelled Caesar to crush them; and the more desperate their struggles the more absolute the necessity became — J.A.Froude > < it was horrid, that pitiful, forlorn cry of pain and of absolute despair coming from such a giant — Liam O'Flaherty > simple stresses isolation from complicating or obscuring factors; it may indicate that further resolution or analysis is unnecessary or impossible < the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simple opposites — H.L.Mencken > < the simple truth, so hard to come by anywhere, implies, of course, a lucid statement of it — H.V.Gregory > sheer has more intensifying force and less suggestion of shades of meaning than others in this group; it may stress the palpable revelation or obvious display of whatever is being spoken of < the “Ancient Mariner,” … is a work of sheer imagination — J.L.Lowes > < is there anything that, for sheer simplicity of pathos … can be said to equal or even approach the last act of Christ's passion — Oscar Wilde > < the sheer dynamism of the totalitarian promise acquires a glistening certainty which few men can stand up against — A.M.Schlesinger b. 1917 > Synonym: see in addition chaste. II. a. < a pure-white linen > < pure-silk shirtings > b. chiefly dialect < pure miserable with a toothache > < most of the track was pure muddy > III. 1. obsolete 2. IV. 1. a. b. 2. V. Scotland variant of poor |
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