| 词汇 | example_english_possession |
| 释义 | Examples of possessionThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Verily, my children and my possessions are my enemies. Examples of inalienable and alienable possessions are given in (8) and (9), respectively. Second, inalienable possessions are necessary conditions for empathy - one's ability to know, and even experience, the intentional states of others. Their task is to speculate on the identity of the owner of the coat on the basis of these possessions. First, the similarity of the possessions claimed suggests that both groups participate in similar economic activities. The symbolic value of personal gifts and possessions as a symbol of the deceased is addressed in a particularly insightful chapter. Much less would it have been able to protect any commercial establishments or possessions overseas. True friends were moreover believed to 'merge into one another' and to regard the other as one's second self, sharing their life and their possessions. Inalienable possessions are very closely associated with the identity of the group and individual owner: they provide the keeper with a 'cosmological authentication'. Judging by the wills of spinsters and widows, women had intense feelings about their possessions. The king, enraged, threatened to destroy the possessions of the objecting monks. She was content with her room even though it had few of her possessions. She had placed her possessions in storage and said that ' it didn't matter ' if they were returned to her. Moreover, possessions are more accurately measured than income in traditional societies. There was no cause for alarm; the workmen were treating my possessions quite well. On the one hand, the history of a group may be seen through the types of inalienable possessions that it holds. Inalienable possessions, then, reveal a palimpsest of historical change. They are a clear case of ' improvement ' of the houses' rights and possessions. Other possessions included three silver tankards, eighteen silver spoons and three sweetmeat silver spoons. Operatives found themselves in a downward spiral in which they were forced to sell all possessions. The parting took place without what is in such situations frequently a quarrel over material possessions. An example is the bequest of material possessions after death via a socially recognized and enforced document such as a will. Most boarding houses provided all linen and such, so tenants could move in or out with few personal possessions. The extent of the abbey's possessions is carefully examined and a catalogue of the eleventh-century library edited. What is noteworthy here is that the owners clung to their landed possessions, rather than opting to sell off their economically insignificant lots. Property owners found somewhere to store their possessions. Moreover, he obtained a large extent of control over the labourers working on his possessions. I wasn't getting rid of my possessions, merely hiding them in cupboards. Men entered into society to secure themselves and their possessions against violence. However, he had to mortgage everything he owned to pay for this and in the following years also mortgaged all his new possessions. As a proxy for household economic level, the presence of various possessions in the household was used to create a scale of assets (0-6). Not needing personal possessions was a boon to women as well as men, the old as well as the young. Others who had moved from nursing homes or other care facilities previously had disposed of their household possessions and had little to bring with them. Because the questions on household possessions and housing quality were not identical in the two surveys, the derived household wealth indices are not directly comparable. The material possessions are indivisible, the fa is obliged to use them for the wellbeing of all the members. Through luxury, individuals exhibited their material possessions entirely for the pur pose of showing off. The inventory listed very few material possessions that, according to the notary ' did not exist anymore since his sister had already taken care of them'. The warmer climes of far-flung possessions have forced a dramatic reappraisal. Human beings need to learn the value of acts, possessions, and so on, that are not species-specific. Meanwhile, only a handful of these repatriates could be defined as 'refugees' in the sense of being deprived of their possessions and being made homeless. In his absence he was robbed of all his possessions. Under more materialistic conditions with an emphasis on control and possessions, positive character development throughout level 3 is unlikely. Such elite families succeeded in developing an alternative power structure based upon strong kinship relations and underpinned by collective family possessions. In short, with the accrual of inalienable possessions attendant on baptism, a child can be object of interhousehold sociality, but not subject. Symptoms involve losing one's basic capabilities as a person, one's most precious possessions: shadow and name, health and heart, and even life itself. Inalienable possessions are thus uniquely involved in the giving of gifts, the articulation of social relations, the disclosure of value, and the expansion of personhood. In sum, inalienable possessions are directly related to various conditions and entailments of personhood, such as health, responsibility, interpellation, morality, and value. On the other hand, the biography of individuals may be seen through the particular inalienable possessions that they hold. Prussian efficiency involved the technique of steam-cleaning (and thus often destroying) the possessions of travellers. They seemed to thrive without benefit of organised religion, monarchs or a judiciary, and these ' noble savages ' had no greed for personal possessions. One man he 'stumbled' across had lost his son through starvation, all his possessions and had a wife in her ®nal death throes. If so, we would expect this to be re-ected in the possessions listed in inventories. Affectively he will be satisfied, for he will be active and enjoying his activities, his friends, his possessions. Both surveys collected data on household possessions and the quality of the dwelling unit from which household wealth indices can be constructed. As this sixteenth-century book of rules for nuns dictated, the ritual act of separation from material possessions marked the entrance of a woman into monastic religious life. While they could tell stories of how they were sorting through their homes to rid themselves of unnecessary possessions, participants also described the process of generating new creations. The relation between inalienable possessions and human possessors is analyzed across a variety of domains, ranging from grammatical categories and discursive practices to illness cures and life-cycle rituals. Indeed, there may only ever have been the one inclination, unbroken through the centuries, setting certain words loose as 'internationalisms' that are more than simply the possessions of particular languages. Because these nouns usually appear in possessed form, and because they are morphologically marked and pragmatically odd when nonpossessed, they have been referred to as inalienable possessions. Indeed, the heartiness of one's inalienable possessions is the quintessential metric for gauging the strength and extent of one's social relations - which is all value ever was anyway. The differential analysis of mass media exposure to family planning indicates that exposure is lower among the rural, illiterate and poor class of people in terms of household possessions. She lost all her papers and possessions. There was also a clear political dimension involved in that the accumulation of landed possessions reflected-indeed, was-wealth, and wealth implied power, which again might generate further wealth. Here basic features of human existence such as food, the body, possessions, sexuality, sickness and dying become contested domains, open to rival interpretations, and subject to regimes of power. To be sure, individuals gain or lose particular inalienable possessions during their lives (for example, in baptism one acquires a name, and with illness one loses one's heart). However, he refused to return his possessions. In the first document, the "mob" that made the alliance banded together and destroyed the possessions and houses of tenants who attempted to pay their rents. Differences in the importance of material possessions are evident in residents' contentment with the number of things that they brought when they moved into residential care. To the extent that people treat possessions differently from money, this would have been a hard effect to observe if the only payoffs available to subjects had been monetary. Of particular interest is the transmission of more personally significant possessions, or 'keepsakes', and how this is managed both before a person dies and following death. First, insofar as people value inalienable possessions, and insofar as inalienable possessions delimit what counts as a person, inalienable possessors may identify with their inalienable possessions. Grammatical category of inalienable possessions. The people have suffered the destruction also, in most cases, of their furniture and their modest possessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many who could march no further attempted to board passing trains, but here they soon lost the few possessions they had managed to save. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Can any steps be taken to protect them, their possessions and their property in the present circumstances? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His great possessions he treated as a trust. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we do not protect our interest and our property some greater and more virile nation will contemptuously brush us aside and take these possessions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People genuinely want to offload their possessions in a relatively cheap way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How much of the development loan will be given to our smaller possessions? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their personal possessions will also be conveyed at public expense within the same limits as those returning on normal posting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our possessions abroad are great reservoirs of manpower, and they must be looked at in that light. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only information available on mortgage possessions is the number of actions entered and orders made in each county court. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They had been divested of all their possessions, and this was in a time of peace, at least officially. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The women began increasingly to be regarded as possessions of their families. The latter (merchants or prosperous artisan purchasers of land) had either never farmed their possessions or had ceased to and let them out. He should take no thought for the morrow, and should bear in mind that possessions imply making provision for the future. The mere appearance of dignity through the possessions of honors is reminiscent of the aristocratic view on dignity. Simplifying, that is, learning to live with fewer material possessions by economizing, yields a surplus of time which can itself be employed for better ends. She lived increasingly in her bedroom, concentrating needed objects and valued possessions around her. As wealth and possessions were accumulated there was speculation as to how parent societies were being affected. In pursuit of more possessions, they argue, people increasingly fail to nurture or extend their personal relationships. Respect-rights, then, are about relations between people, not possessions of individuals. With their scanty possessions, they pitch tents at nights, performing wherever there is interest and some remuneration. In short, besides being necessary combustibles for the inhalation cure, inalienable possessions are also pledges of their owner's responsibility for scaring the victim. Property rights led to voting rights and possessions, in this way, led to power of civic participation. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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