| 词汇 | adumbration |
| 释义 | adumbration noun[ U or C ] formaluk /ˌæd.əmˈbreɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌæd.əmˈbreɪ.ʃən/ the act of giving the main facts and not the details about something, or something that gives these main facts: 概括;轮廓 I admit that my adumbration of yesterday's meeting was scant.我承认，我对昨天的会议所做的概括很不充分。 The "people's budget" of 1909 was an early adumbration of the British welfare state. 1909年的“人民预算”是英国福利国家的一个早期雏形。 See adumbrate She believes that religions are all adumbrations of a truth. His maiden speech is a mere adumbration of his next speech on the same question. These adumbrations on the contents of last week's Spectator are fascinating. Defining & explaining account (to someone) for something accountability adumbrate annotation annotator argue cogently belabour demythologize disabuse extenuate indescribably inexpressibly justificatory lay something out limn outline sketch spell trace what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom Examples of adumbrationadumbration Being the correlate of an act of synthesis on my part, the intentional object is no longer bound to any particular spatio-temporal adumbration. Once an utterance is classified as a discovery statement, its private adumbration constitutes a hermeneutic problem. That was the adumbration of an extension of the same principle to the main line railway companies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us have the figures, exactly and precisely, and no ancillary adumbrations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even that vague adumbration of peace aims has aroused wrath. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I came back to find people talking about taking a "realistic" view, which invariably precedes the adumbration of some major breach of principle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us have the figures, not adumbrations from the platform to a large crowd of people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need the consent of the people whatever we propose to do by legislation, or by adumbration of policy, or whatever it may be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that the clauses are self-explanatory and will require little adumbration by me. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously there will be no firm commitment, but at the moment there is no adumbration. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Clearly from the footnote to the preface this is not a paraphrase; it is not merely an adumbration of those recommendations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These proposals are not so much a tariff as an initiation, an adumbration, of a tariff. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In short, are we asking too much, while awaiting the adumbration of a long-term social insurance policy, if we ask for an increase in the supplementary allowance? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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