| 单词 | esoteric |
| 释义 | es·o·ter·ic I. 1. a. < types of music … that demand special training to be perceived and enjoyed, and its devotees form a cult, so that their art is the most esoteric of all arts — John Dewey > < a body of esoteric legal doctrine — B.N.Cardozo > < her vocabulary wasn't slimed up with offensive bits of esoteric finishing-school slang — R.P.Warren > — opposed to exoteric b. < there are two kinds of classics, the popular and the esoteric, those that yield their meaning at the first encounter and those that we have to discover by effort and insight — Van Wyck Brooks > < passage involving esoteric swordplay — R.L.Taylor > 2. < the esoteric sects, which guard a mystery known only to the initiated — W.L.Sperry > : dealing in or concerned with esoteric matters < an esoteric study > < many drivers going through Oak Ridge on their way somewhere else stop to stare at the esoteric factories, that, for better or worse, are shaping their futures — Daniel Lang > < the scholarly director of an esoteric local research center called the Institute of Jazz Studies — E.J.Kahn > < the museum was an esoteric, occult place in which a mystic language was spoken — Aline B. Saarinen > 3. a. < arctic exploration was an esoteric pursuit — E.P.Hanson > < lingers in the twilight of an esoteric reputation — H.L.Mencken > b. < some esoteric reason known only to God and himself — Francis Gérard > 4. < many are rather esoteric items such as aluminum duck presses, mechanical duck pluckers, woolen bands to keep the belly and kidney areas warm when hunting in winter — Bill Wolf > < they would smoke me out and ask me questions, as though I possessed some esoteric knowledge of a kind not revealed by the guides — Lawrence Dame > < if the Requiem seems a bit esoteric and out of the way for a modern conductor, let us take a symphony — P.H.Lang > < esoteric colors like taupe or celadon — New Yorker > • es·o·ter·i·cal·ly II. 1. 2. esoterics plural |
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