idea

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /aɪ̯ˈdɪə̯/    美 /aɪ̯ˈdi.ə/|/aɪ̯ˈdiə/|/aɪˈdiː/|/ˈa(ɪ)di/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
    — The idea that the same experiments always get the same results, no matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry.
  2. The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal. obsolete
  3. The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic. obsolete
    — The remembrance whereof (which yet I beare deepely imprinted in my minde) representing me her visage and Idea so lively and so naturally, doth in some sort reconcile me unto her.
  4. An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.
    — The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.
  5. More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.
    — Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
  6. A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.
    — I have an idea of how we might escape.
  7. A purposeful aim or goal; intent.
    — Yeah, that's the idea.
  8. A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.
    — He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.
  9. A musical theme or melodic subject.

词形变化

ideas plural ideæ plural,rare

词汇关系

近义词
image
衍生词
absolute idea abstract idea all the gear and no idea buck up one's ideas business idea counteridea fixed idea get the idea get the wrong idea have no idea have the first idea idea art idea'd idea dinner ideaed ideaful idea future ideagenous idea hamster ideahood idealess idea man idea monger ideamonger idea of reference idea pot ideascape ideathon idea virus life-idea memory-idea monoideism mother-idea no idea nonidea not have the faintest idea not have the first idea one-idea overvalued idea over-valued idea received idea sense-idea simple idea subidea the very idea unideaed war of ideas what's the big idea
相关词
ideal idealism idealist ideality idealize ideate ideatum ideocracy ideologue ideology in idea

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Ancient Greek ῐ̓δεῖν (ĭdeîn)
Ancient Greek ῐ̓δέᾱ (ĭdéā)der.
Latin ideabor.
English idea
Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “to see”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”). Cognate with French idée. Doublet of idée. Related to idol, idolum, and eidolon.
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