| 单词 | extrinsic |
| 释义 | ex·trin·sic 1. a. < extrinsic to native capacities > b. (1) < looking for extrinsic aid > < disdaining extrinsic pressure groups > specifically < the extrinsic muscles of the tongue > (2) < extrinsic evidence > : accidental, contingent 2. < an extrinsic feature of the new building > Synonyms: < that style is something extrinsic to the subject, a kind of ornamentation laid on to tickle the taste — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < the special quality of such presuppositions is that they are inherent and not extrinsic — Walter Moberly > extraneous applies to what is exterior or unrelated but may be interjected with or interpreted as part of an intrinsic essence < simony was no extraneous stain to be washed off from the body ecclesiastic, but rather an element of its actual constitution — H.O.Taylor > < it is simply a close rendering of the Latin text, and it contains little, if any, extraneous matter of the kind which in other works illustrates the character of Alfred's thought — F.M.Stenton > < no extraneous beauty or vigor was ingrafted on the decaying stock — T.B.Macaulay > foreign applies to what is exterior, notably different, or unlikely to be assimilated with or to become part of < the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper — W.C.Brownell > < executive inaction in such a situation, courting national disaster, is foreign to the concept of energy and initiative in the executive as created by the founding fathers — Current History > alien may be stronger than foreign in suggesting opposition, incompatibility, repugnance, or irreconcilability < an emotional quality totally alien to the austerity of the rest of the sermon > < though such frankness would, in the past, have been wholly alien to her nature, she now began to tell him of her experience — Francis King > |
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