ulterior
形容词 adj.
英 /ʌlˈtɪə.ɹɪə/
美 /ʌlˈtɪɚ.i.ɚ/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
— It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.
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Beyond what is obvious or evident.
— Let a watch be contrived and constructed ever so ingeniously: be its parts ever so many, ever so complicated, ever so finely wrought, or artificially put together, it cannot go without a weight or spring, that is, without a force independent of, and ulteriour to, its mechanism.
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Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
— Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.
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Happening later; subsequent.
— Their noble and grand Mightineſſes have thereby not only ſatisfied the general wiſhes of the greateſt and beſt part of the inhabitants of this province, but they have laid the foundations of ulteriour alliances and correſpondencies of friendſhip and of good underſtanding with the United States of America, which promiſe new life to the languiſhing ſtate of our commerce, navigation, and manufactures.
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From Latin ulterior (“further, more distant”), from ulter (“that is beyond”) + -ior (“more”).
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