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单词 adumbration
释义
adumbration
noun[UorC]
formal
uk
/ˌæd.əmˈbreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæd.əmˈbreɪ.ʃən/
theactof giving themainfactsand not thedetailsabout something, or something that gives thesemainfacts:
概括；轮廓
Iadmitthat my adumbration of yesterday'smeetingwasscant.我承认，我对昨天的会议所做的概括很不充分。
The "people'sbudget" of 1909 was an early adumbration of the Britishwelfarestate.1909年的“人民预算”是英国福利国家的一个早期雏形。
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  • These adumbrations on thecontentsof last week's Spectator arefascinating.
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(Definition ofadumbrationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofadumbration

adumbration
Being the correlate of an act of synthesis on my part, the intentional object is no longer bound to any particular spatio-temporaladumbration.
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Once an utterance is classified as a discovery statement, its privateadumbrationconstitutes a hermeneutic problem.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That was theadumbrationof an extension of the same principle to the main line railway companies.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Let us have the figures, exactly and precisely, and no ancillary adumbrations.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Even that vagueadumbrationof peace aims has aroused wrath.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I came back to find people talking about taking a "realistic" view, which invariably precedes theadumbrationof some major breach of principle.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Let us have the figures, not adumbrations from the platform to a large crowd of people.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
We need the consent of the people whatever we propose to do by legislation, or byadumbrationof policy, or whatever it may be.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I hope that the clauses are self-explanatory and will require littleadumbrationby me.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Obviously there will be no firm commitment, but at the moment there is noadumbration.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Clearly from the footnote to the preface this is not a paraphrase; it is not merely anadumbrationof those recommendations.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These proposals are not so much a tariff as an initiation, anadumbration, of a tariff.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
In short, are we asking too much, while awaiting theadumbrationof a long-term social insurance policy, if we ask for an increase in the supplementary allowance?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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