| 单词 | quality |
| 释义 | qual·i·ty I. 1. a. < differences in the quality of the two temperaments — M.D.Howe > < self-interest and sympathy, opposite in quality — John Dewey > < the quality of mercy is not strained — Shakespeare > < the offender knew the nature and quality of the act — B.N.Cardozo > < take on the quality of animate life — H.V.Gregory > b. < the qualities of the circle > < has the … quality that its color and spectrum fade out — Albert Szent-Györgyi > < herbs … and their true qualities — Shakespeare > c. < I make this inquiry in quality of an antiquary — Thomas Gray > < in the quality of reader and companion — Joseph Conrad > 2. a. (1) < decline in the quality of students — H.L.Creek > < the quality of the soil — J.M.Mogey > < manufactured in only one quality — Catalog of Plumbing Fixtures > < the quality of the … golfer's game — Judson Philips > (2) b. (1) < merchandise of quality > < proclaimed the quality of his wife — Compton Mackenzie > < colt with … plenty of quality — G.F.T.Ryall > (2) of livestock (3) (4) 3. a. < your name, your quality — Shakespeare > especially < a man of quality > < solicited a person of quality for the appointment > < the colored people of quality — Oscar Handlin > b. < companions … among the highest quality in the land — Fashion Digest > — usually used with the < flaunting themselves … as if they were the quality — David Garnett > c. obsolete < you are not of our quality — Shakespeare > especially < players, I love yee, and your quality — John Davies > 4. a. < the boy has many fine qualities > < qualities of naïveté and inexperience — Peter Foster > < more than any other quality … gregariousness — W.H.Whyte > < the man was much greater than the sum of his qualities — Willa Cather > especially < a man without qualities — Frederic Morton > < the defect as well as the qualities of its … origins — Times Literary Supplement > b. c. d. archaic < she hath more qualities than a water spaniel — Shakespeare > 5. a. b. c. (1) (2) < in the theory of emergent evolution life and mind are qualities > 6. 7. a. b. c. d. e. < red, sweet, and cold are qualities of certain sensations > 8. Synonyms: < our candidate is a man of quality, of stature, of caliber > quality may stress inherent, enduring good traits that make one somewhat superior < there was nothing in his outer case to suggest the fierceness and fortitude and fire of the man, and yet even the thick-blooded Mexican half-breeds knew his quality at once — Willa Cather > < had quality, if he lacked character — Ellen Glasgow > < as those of quality do, not as the vulgar — George Washington > stature is likely to suggest height reached or development attained to and to connote considerations of prestige and eminence < in time the expanding vitality attains its full stature — Ellen Glasgow > < men of stature and local prestige formed the personnel of these committees — C.G.Bowers > Unlike quality, stature is freely used with notions of increase or decrease < probings in the realms of life and matter have seemed to diminish man's stature and to belittle his dignity — J.P.Marquand > caliber may connote an unusual but measurable range, scope, breadth of intellectual capacity or of other ability < it is true that, in the early years of George III's reign, there were Britons of the intellectual caliber of Hume and Gibbon who were avowed skeptics — G.M.Trevelyan > < in practically every country there is a decrease in the intellectual and moral caliber of those who carry the responsibility of public affairs — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: < my intolerance is reserved for qualities and not for externals — A.C.Benson > < the persistent contemporariness that is a quality of all good art — Aldous Huxley > < there was only one quality in a woman that appealed to him — charm — John Galsworthy > property may refer to a peculiar or distinctive trait, often an essential or intrinsic one, which can be used to describe a species or type < since ether is not material it has not any of the usual characteristics of matter — mass, rigidity, etc. — but it has quite definite properties of its own — A.S.Eddington > < weight is only an apparently invariable property of matter — Havelock Ellis > character may stress an identifying property < hauynite and noselite show characters like sodalite, but they differ from it in containing the radical SO4 in the place of chlorine — L.V.Pirsson > < deserves credit for having preserved the character and characteristics of his original — B.R.Redman > attribute indicates a characteristic, often an essential concomitant, with which a person or thing has been endowed < this Confederation had none of the attributes of sovereignty in legislative, executive, or judicial power — R.B.Taney > < the harder a writer tries to add beauty to clearness, the more surely does he feel himself to be held off from perfection by attributes of language which he did not make and cannot do away with — C.E.Montague > accident refers to an additional, concomitant trait, one nonessential and usually noninherent in the thing under consideration < certainly many mystics have been ascetic. But that has been the accident of their philosophy, and not the essence of their religion — Havelock Ellis > II. 1. < quality folks > < bring quality people to the wedding — Padraic Colum > 2. < quality goods > < quality meat > < quality stocks > < quality leather > < this quality revolution in … buying habits — New York Times > < make it a quality operation — Virgil Thomson > |
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