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单词 disquisition
释义
Examples from literature
  • In this tract nothing deserves notice, more than that Browne considers the oracles as evidently and indubitably supernatural, and founds all his disquisition upon that postulate.
  • It is a lengthened disquisition, in seven thousand four hundred lines, upon the great phenomena of the outward world.
  • The national historian of Rome has left us an episode of his great work, a disquisition on the probable effects that would have followed if Alexander the Great had invaded Italy.
  • We have been led to this disquisition into the fundamental nature of this private record by the question put to us, whether it is a good plan for a woman to keep a diary.
  • We intend to kindle, not to extinguish, curiosity, by this slight sketch of a work, abounding with curious quotations and pleasing disquisitions.

Examplesofdisquisition

disquisition
Second, the book transcends mere theoreticaldisquisitionand empirical analysis, bringing prevalent strains of political theory vividly to life.
From theCambridge English Corpus
But here as so often in grammatical disquisitions these terms explain nothing.
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Then follows a learned and entertainingdisquisitionon family nomenclature.
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From juristic disquisitions, one can see this happening.
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Using the word ' ' shiveree ' ' as the title of its final chapter, the narrator writes ' ' adisquisitionon the etymology of the word ' ' (293).
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Vergerio's sermons were innovative in not being structured as disquisitions on scriptural passages but as panegyrical orations.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Apropos of the traditional disputation, this essay begins with adisquisitionmore or less to the point.
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After a shortdisquisitionupon the usual methods employed for catching elephants, he expressed the opinion that these methods could only be used on level ground.
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The oral genre of the early modern academic or professorial disputation typically had a two-part structure: an openingdisquisition, as above, then the theses for disputation, as below.
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Palissy's disquisitions were therefore also meant to educate the eyes of his fellows.
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I am not going to follow him into adisquisitionupon the rival effects upon public morals of horse racing, bridge-playing and greyhound racing.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Instead, we were led through a fascinating history lesson, somewhat tendentious, but after a fashion a learneddisquisition.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I had not interrupted him, and must moreover say that it would not have been worth it to break into hisdisquisition.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
After all, are we driven to historicaldisquisitionas to the origin of tithe on a matter of this kind?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
But let us assume that to be the view, what then becomes of his historicaldisquisitionon the origin of tithe in earlier days?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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