词汇 | non-purposive |
释义 | non-purposive adjective formal(alsononpurposive)uk /ˌnɒnˈpɜː.pə.sɪv/ us /ˌnɑːnˈpɝː.pə.sɪv/ not done with the aim of achieving a particular thing: 无目的的,无目标的;无针对性的 She regards the state as a non-purposive, rule-based institution. He believes that evolution occurs through a variety of nonpurposive mechanisms.他认为进化是通过各种无目的性的方式发生的。 Some of the patients that I saw at the clinic displayed nonpurposive behaviour such as lifting the arm or twisting the fingers. We seemed to experience an endless, nonpurposive movement through a boundless area. This theory imagines that law is a general, abstract, and non-purposive body of rules. Chance and randomness accident accident of birth aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness coincidence crapshoot even money fluke fluky long shot luck luck into something more by accident than designidiom more by luck than judgmentidiom randomness serendipitous serendipitously sortition stumble into something |
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