Defined

(adj.) clearly characterized or delimited; 'lost in a maze of words both defined and undefined'; 'each child has clearly defined duties' .

(adj.) showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary; 'hills defined against the evening sky'; 'the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill' .

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• It was of less immediate practical importance that it frequently defined them wrongly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Now sexual morality is pretty clearly defined for the Commission. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Every body pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first defined what picturesque beauty was. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Sound waves may be said to consist of a series of condensations and rarefactions, and the distance between two consecutive condensations and rarefactions may be defined as the wave length. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• You look like the effigy of a young knight asleep on his tomb, she said, carefully tracing the well-cut profile defined against the dark stone. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• A useful member was perhaps to be defined as one who would originate nothing, and always vote with Mr. Bulstrode. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Genius has been defined as 'the power of taking pains'; but hardly any one keeps up his interest in knowledge throughout a whole life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Her feelings as she read were scarcely to be defined. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Activity is defined or specialized in certain channels. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Justice is commonly defined to be a constant and perpetual will of giving every one his due. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• A face of a transparent paleness; every feature in it clearly defined; one set expression on it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• My position is defined--my motives are acknowledged. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• If I remember rightly, you on one occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits in a very precise fashion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The double line a little above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, was beautifully defined. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• To a defined extent,' observed Mr Dorrit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• An opinion, therefore, or belief may be most accurately defined, a lively idea related to or associated with a present impression. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The whole and sole conduct of the editors may be defined in one word, selfishness. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The unit of work chosen and in use in practical affairs is the foot pound, and is defined as the work done when a force of 1 pound acts through a distance of 1 foot. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Science has been defined in terms of method of inquiry and testing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The close observer will discover a well-defined division of labor, different groups of bees performing certain operations. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Why is not all nature in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined? 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Emma listened, and looked, and soon perceived that Frank Churchill's state might be best defined by the expressive phrase of being out of humour. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Experience is here taken as previously defined: trying to do something and having the thing perceptibly do something to one in return. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Each one was a well-defined lead by itself, and without a spur. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To the one who is learned, subject matter is extensive, accurately defined, and logically interrelated. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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