aspect
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
— Japan's aging population is an important aspect of its economy.
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The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
— Given the limitations of planar representation[…] The painter is constantly forced to choose one aspect over the other.
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The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
— in certain aspects [ = in certain respects]
- A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
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One's appearance or expression.
— Art thou but Captaine of a thouſand horſe, That by Characters grauen in thy browes, And by thy martiall face and ſtout aſpect, Deſeru’ſt to haue the leading of an hoſte?
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Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
— The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.
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Prospect; outlook.
— This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended ; nor does it deceive us ; for it is handsomely built […]
- A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding.
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The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope.
— […] To the blanc moon / Her office they prescribed; to the other five / Their planetary motions, and aspects, / In sextile, square, and trine, and opposite, / Of noxious efficacy, and when to join / In synod unbenign; and taught the fix'd / their influence malignant when to shower, / Which of them rising with the sun, or falling / Should prove tempestuous: […]
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The personified manifestation of a deity that represents one or more of its characteristics or functions.
— The Mother Goddess in her many manifestations is termed Shakti, the female energy in creation, and worshipped as the supreme female aspect of Brahman.
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The act of looking at something; gaze.
— The tradition is no less ancient, that the basilisk killeth by aspect ; and that the wolf, if he see a man first, by aspect striketh a man hoarse.
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Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
— 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth Vol 1, Chapter IX. They are both in my judgment the image or picture of a great Ruine, and have the true aspect of a World lying in its rubbish.
- In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
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The visual indication of railway signal as displayed to the driver. With three-aspect colour light signals this would be red, yellow or green, and on four-aspect signals, double-yellow also; a two-aspect signal displays red or green.
— It was in this work [on the Southern Railway] that the four-aspect system of indications, using red, yellow, double yellow, and green, was first installed. […][page 229, photo caption] Three-aspect colour-light signal with three-way junction indicator, Bow Junction, Eastern Region
动词 v.
- To have a particular aspect or type of aspect.
- To channel a divine being.
- To look at.
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词源 1
From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).
词源 2
From Middle English aspect, from Latin aspectus (“look, sight; appearance”), from aspiciō (“see; catch sight of; inspect”), from ad- (“to, towards, at”) + speciō (“look, look at, behold; observe”).
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