condition

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/    美 /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A state or quality. countable,uncountable
    — National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
  2. A state or quality.; A particular state of being. countable,uncountable
    — Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
  3. A state or quality.; The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — A man of his condition has no place to make requests.
  4. A state or quality.; The health status of a medical patient. countable,uncountable
    — My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.
  5. A state or quality.; The health status of a medical patient.; A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness. countable,uncountable
    — While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.
  6. A requirement. countable,uncountable
    — Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
  7. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false. countable,uncountable
  8. A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To subject to the process of acclimation.
    — I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
  2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
    — They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
  3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
  4. To place conditions or limitations upon. transitive
    — Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.
  5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
    — The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.
  6. To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner. transitive
    — Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necessitate restriction of trainloads.
  7. To contract; to stipulate; to agree. transitive
    — [P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.
  8. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains). transitive
    — divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed
  9. To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college. US,transitive
    — to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
  10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
    — "To think is thus to condition," because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.

词形变化

conditions plural conditions present,singular,third-person conditioning participle,present conditioned participle,past conditioned past

词汇关系

下位词
ascending chain condition autism spectrum condition descending chain condition human condition interesting condition Marshall-Lerner condition mint condition necessary condition precondition sufficient condition underlying condition
衍生词
air-condition conditionability conditionable conditioner miscondition overcondition precondition recondition uncondition

词源

词源 1
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio.
词源 2
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. An unetymological change in spelling due to a confusion with conditio.
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