Elements

(noun.) violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements); 'they felt the full fury of the elements'.

录入:佩内洛普

• Against artillery of the present day the land forts and walls would prove elements of weakness rather than strength. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The art of manufacturing gems synthetically, that is, by the combination of chemical elements present in the real stone, has reached a high degree of success. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Recourse to the primitive may furnish the fundamental elements of the present situation in immensely simplified form. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In the following year Davy reported other chemical changes produced by electricity; he had succeeded in decomposing the fixed alkalis and disc overing the elements potassium and sodium. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Turkish elements in Russian, Latin in English, Hamitic in Keltic, & so forth; & omitting various Indian, Melanesian & other groups. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Fundamentally, the elements involved in a discussion of value have been covered in the prior discussion of aims and interests. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was a curious example of establishing standard practice while changing with kaleidoscopic rapidity all the elements involved. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Sometimes she observed the war of elements, thinking that they also declared against her, and listened to the pattering of the rain in gloomy despair. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Uke causes still produce like effects; in the same manner as in the mutual action of the elements and powers of nature. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• One is reminded of the lines of Tennyson: Large elements in order brought And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world fluctuation swayed In vassal tides that followed thought. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• We have already glanced, in Chapter XII, at the elements of religion that must have arisen necessarily in the minds of those early peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By a process of cleaning and boiling the albuminoid elements of the animal matter are changed into gelatine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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