| 单词 | philosophy |
| 释义 | phi·los·o·phy 1. a. < philosophy is a natural function of the human mind — Stuart Hampshire > — see first philosophy b. < every advance in knowledge robs philosophy of some problems which formerly it had — Bertrand Russell > c. < the job of philosophy is the study and statement of the logic, informal and formal, of the employment of expressions — V.C.Aldrich > d. < it is the primary aim of philosophy to unify completely … all departments of rational thought — Henry Sidgwick > 2. a. archaic b. c. d. < the philosophy of the medieval universities > < the academic degree doctor of philosophy > < an English bachelor of philosophy > e. 3. a. < the philosophy of a culture determines the general pattern of its … institutions — David Bidney > < three philosophies contending for dominance in contemporary politics — Times Literary Supplement > < the changing philosophy of the courts with regard to many questions — Margaret Nicholson > < set the … philosophy and the basic course of the museum — Roger Angell > b. < design philosophy in chemical plants — D.E.Pierce > — usually used with of < philosophy of religion > < philosophy of education > < the whole philosophy of the bill is to ignore the realities — New Republic > < a chance to prove my philosophy of flying the mail — C.A.Lindbergh b.1902 > < automation is a completely new philosophy of production — John Diebold > 4. a. < lived by the plain philosophy … do your best, be loyal to your friends, never forget your enemies — Time > < every writer has not one but two philosophies — his more or less conscious artistic credo and … his often unconscious vision of life and scheme of values — Max Lerner & Edwin Mims > b. < this is the place that calls out all a composer's self-control; it's a moment for philosophy — Aaron Copland > |
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