| 单词 | resource |
| 释义 | re·source 1. a. < exhausted every resource > < open up new resources to an impoverished culture > b. resources plural < rich natural resources > < the book value of a company's resources > 2. < her usual resource was confession > 3. < lost without resource > 4. < Boston at that time offered few healthy resources for boys or men — Henry Adams > 5. 6. Synonyms: < the nursing mother feeds the newborn from the resources of her own vitality — H.M.Parshley > < almost the only resource upon which people can depend for a living appears to be fish and other animals — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > < in their relative inexperience of the variety of humans and of human beliefs, they all tend to turn inward upon their own limited resources: the primitive to his sacred tribalism, the child to his narcissistic self and body, and the psychotic to the inward resources of his autistic thinking — Weston La Barre > resort in this sense is now uncommon except in the phrases last resort and to have resort to, in which it is close synonym to resource < brotherhood was invoked more wholeheartedly, as the last resort against nihilist desperation — Ignazio Silone > < except in revolutionary unions, the strike is used only as a last resort — G.S.Watkins > expedient may apply to any continuance, means, or plan for solution of a particular immediate problem, especially to one not commonly or customarily used < if all fears arise from suggestion, they can be prevented by the simple expedient of not showing fear or aversion before a child — Bertrand Russell > < but is not this a desperate expedient, a last refuge likely to appeal only to the leaders of a lost cause — J.W.Krutch > < as the war endures, this spirit replaces the aims with which the war was begun by expedients forced on the rulers by the character of the gigantic conflict itself — D.W.Brogan > shift may refer to a temporary or tentative expedient, admittedly imperfect; in reference to plans and stratagems it may suggest dubiousness or trickery < most people who were brought into intimate contact with the two-roomed cottage, not always perhaps including the inhabitants, who had grown up amidst the shifts they enforced, heartily condemned them — G.E.Fussell > makeshift usually designates that which is frankly temporary and inferior and either adopted through urgent need or countenanced through indifference and carelessness < the premises … being only a makeshift until the works … should be finished — F.W.Crofts > < like all attempts to pigeonhole human emotions, these classifications are, of course, makeshifts. They have no scientific value whatsoever — H.W.Van Loon > stopgap refers to something used or employed momentarily or temporarily as an emergency measure < both vigilantes and mass meeting were looked upon as temporary stopgaps, to be disbanded as soon as governmental machinery was provided by the United States — R.A.Billington > substitute indicates anything which replaces a thing or article originally or customarily used; it does not necessarily connote anything about merit or cause < peat as a coal substitute > < a substitute for milk itself could be manufactured from the soya bean — V.G.Heiser > < this mock king who held office for eight days every year was a substitute for the king himself — J.G.Frazer > surrogate is a more learned word for substitute, often used of synthetic products or of replacement figures in psychological and sociological analyses < that is why slang is so insidious and so pervasive; it too is a facile surrogate for thought — J.L.Lowes > < his accounts are full, informed, trustworthy, but he does not pretend to the depersonalized objectivity that too often serves as a surrogate for authority in such writing — Howard M. Jones > < usually each child thus receives his turn to act as parent-surrogate to a younger child — Allison Davis > |
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