Element

(noun.) the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; 'water is the element of fishes'.

(noun.) a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone.

(noun.) the situation in which you are happiest and most effective; 'in your element'.

(noun.) one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe; 'the alchemists believed that there were four elements'.

录入:内德

• The latter is the element that we breathe and which passes into the body, there to combine with the impurities resulting from the various life activities. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This Ph?nician alliance sustained him, and was the essential element in the greatness of his son Solomon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But how important an element enclosure is, I plainly saw near Farnham, in Surrey. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Hence they have a difficulty in receiving the first element of improvement, which is self-knowledge. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The two gentlemen undressed leisurely on the bank, Maurice making fun of the Greek as he revelled in his favorite element. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Thinking is thus equivalent to an explicit rendering of the intelligent element in our experience. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The most conspicuous element in this is the wide-spread acceptance of the X-ray as a necessary tool of the medical profession. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The thought, taken up by electrical engineers, brought out an electric toaster, rectangular in shape, with handsome frame, nickel supports and wire heating element. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• While the earth is literally bathed in nitrogen, this element is found to only a very slight degree in the soil. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Above all, the intellectual element in a habit fixes the relation of the habit to varied and elastic use, and hence to continued growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Let us apply the first element in this criterion to a despotically governed state. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There is a distinct element of danger. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The line between the Rebel and Union element in Georgetown was so marked that it led to divisions even in the churches. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They represented the Aristotelian, the Hellenic, and Macedonian element. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In the following year Davy reported other chemical changes produced by electricity; he had succeeded in decomposing the fixed alkalis and disc overing the elements potassium and sodium. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value have been covered in the prior discussion of aims and interests. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was a curious example of establishing standard practice while changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity all the elements involved. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Sometimes she observed the war of elements, thinking that they also declared against her, and listened to the pattering of the rain in gloomy despair. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Uke causes still produce like effects; in the same manner as in the mutual action of the elements and powers of nature. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We have already glanced, in Chapter XII, at the elements of religion that must have arisen necessarily in the minds of those early peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By a process of cleaning and boiling the albuminoid elements of the animal matter are changed into gelatine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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