| 词汇 | example_english_connotation |
| 释义 | Examples of connotationThese 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. Honour might have been a common idiom among men, but the different immigrant communities perhaps attatched to it quite different connotations and importance. The point is rather that descriptions have connotations which can themselves be traced to the relevant relations. The connotations of these expressions illustrate the emotional and intellectual reactions of self-induced death. The literal meaning of the term prestidigitator is 'nimble-fingered', but its connotations extend to the idea of illusion, imposture, deception. Physical motion is precluded here, and there do not seem to be any connotations of intensity or negative attitude (see note 11). The gradations among the groups in 44 - 46 clearly reflect the influence of socio-historical factors on linguistic connotations. I considered the equipollence of referential expressions, the problem of positive and negative connotations of various referential expressions, and the problem of cross-gender reference. We must also not forget that the position of the sound in a space affects the connotations of that sound. Changing the position may change the connotations (a distant car has very different connotations than a car passing one metre away from the listener). The economic transformation of camel pastoralists carried religious connotations and implications. The fourth section details how covering the female bosom was divested of such connotations and endowed with new ones. We simply want to resist the misleading connotations of this terminology. 11. On the other hand, words that are not commonly viewed as emotion-laden may acquire emotional connotations in discourse. The discovery of connotations is based on cultural and literary experience, or on the structure of a specific text, or both. All were characterized by certain ' 'freedoms' ' or ' 'liberties' ', but such connotations disappeared in the course of the seventeenth century with the unification of the country. Again, this is a leisure image, with no connotations of industry. He often draws heavily on connotations, associations that sometimes only readers of his own background, his own history, can have. The study concentrates especially on chapter xii, because of its ecclesiastical connotations, and chapter xx, because of the variety of interpretations of the millennium. Finding terms to describe selection processes that do not have all sorts of inappropriate connotations is not easy. Finally, anagrammatic word groups may surprise and delight by their apposite connotations. She is an ambivalent figure because she is not the subject of power but its carrier (the connotations of disease are appropriate here). On the one hand, liberty has universalistic connotations, central to the notions of individual and minority rights and democratic government. The proposal is that children and adults learn the connotations of a word by ' keeping a tally ' of its surrounding contexts. Dickens presents a pseudo-aristocratic register in the noun phrases "familiar denomination," "antlered herd" and "shady precincts," with their connotations of hunting and hereditary lineage. More implicitly, the biblical notion of truth has clear moral connotations. As will be discussed below, a considerable body of meanings and connotations could be condensed within the material qualities of the monument's architecture. Involvement in the revival also carried connotations of exclusivity during the early 1960s, something that was extremely important to many young people at this time. The social and economical connotations of elements from the nineteenth-century cultural landscape have often changed sharply. If one understands this in the sense that all philosophical positions may be construed as having political connotations and implications, we would agree. I wish to avoid this aspect of the romantic while retaining its connotations of attention to the emotive and affective dimensions of experience. Both the reliance on distant kin or nonkin and the inability to reciprocate have connotations of charity and pity, which in themselves represent 'bad ends'. We can call this (again appropriating a term from political philosophy, again purging it of all negative connotations) the anarchist position. Far from liberating the declining body from its negative cultural connotations, successful ageing appears to reaffirm its continued cultural repression. There are both positive and negative connotations of getting old. While the concepts used in care practice invoke slightly different connotations, they also reveal common associations and attributed qualities. All the psychological terms that came to mind had been used previously and were encumbered with unwanted connotations. Thus, some groups but not others are labeled "migrants," a term freighted with connotations of essential foreignness and nonassimilation. They have left behind this label - outstripped its negative connotations and surpassed all associated expectations. Several connotations of the word 'trade' are explored in the sound piece. Indeed, its connotations go beyond the simple reference to a room to indicate a fundamental attitude toward life. Utilizing trematodes in snails as indicator species in long-lived and short-lived snails has variable connotations. Activists exploit the revolutionary connotations of tongzhi and its suggestions of liberty, solidarity, and intimacy. However, even hi usage for these stances was considered more appropriate for male than for female speakers because of its masculine connotations. Although textual comments can be helpful, they require a careful analysis of a user to understand their positive or negative connotations. The term civil society has come to have rather favourable connotations. They provided an assurance of social control whilst avoiding the connotations of 'social planning ' associated with the left. Students categorized some practice as 'routine', with connotations of being undemanding, not critical, and predictable. In the context of word lists containing taboo words, finger took on emotional connotations that led to increased skin conductance amplitudes. There is, then, a deliberate ambiguity concerning the title's topographical and temporal connotations which reflects the partial state of our knowledge. To quantify was necessarily to ignore a rich array of meanings and connotations. However, when applied to describe or explain his original experiences, each of these references acquired unexpected connotations or entirely new meanings. Only later does the musical material shed itself of any vocal connotations, becoming the warp and weft of a lavish orchestral score. Even where the sounds are similar, they may have completely different connotations. Intuition for the third implication-the connection between identity and institution-follows from the idea that institutional venues embody certain connotations regarding access. The vocal is close miked with connotations of intimacy and is accompanied solely by a lightly strummed acoustic guitar. The connotations of the street in opposition to the home, as invoked in subcultural theory, are that of an exciting and slightly dangerous place. In this context it has obvious derogative connotations. There is no one single pr inciple that can explain the choice and connotations of these adjectives. They are, however, not entirely abstract because they entail connotations provided by the origin of the concepts in real actions such as arithmetical activities. How should different connotations of the same word or metaphorical meanings be assessed? Many find the argument for an ethics of care problematic, for ' care ' is a difficult word with many negative connotations. Photo images reinforce the hearth's feminine connotations and its portal role. The difference between determine and constrain is not idle word play because the connotations surrounding the two words are different. Consequently, many loans bear within them the cultural connotations of the original language when they are accepted in their original form into the host language. The notion that a model or experiment 'works' has quite other connotations. Doing this, they can substitute for the intentionalistic connotations of concepts such as "knowledge," or "object concept," their own behavior-based theory. Clearly not all juveniles were poor or destitute - but some were, especially in towns ; and poverty had moral as well as material connotations. The positive connotations that an active civil society has in democratic countries have been transferred to authoritarian states or democratising countries. The mobile phone tunes may have various connotations just like any other musical melody. Thus, despite the supposed postmodernist reappraisal of cultural categories, opera retains its connotations of upper-class leisure-time. A mere description of the acoustic attributes of noise is, however, insufficient to understand the negative connotations that noise carries. The term will be used here in a dimension referring to the dialectic of both connotations. The second principle is that the listener's knowledge of context, together with associations and connotations, play a vital role in the reception of the work. Woven into the structure of the music, these echoes form a collage of connotations from which meaning can be inferred. The notions of ' freedom, equality and fraternity ' among most masons did not have the narrow political connotations and definitions used by radical leaders. In the latter cases, she argues, a phrase is driven by the specific connotations that it bears in the original context. The proposal in this research is that adult input is one factor that sets the stage for the acquisition of word connotations. The study of connotations is an important, but relatively neglected area of study in child language. Peace as a privileged concept had various connotations, strategic and economic, as has been discussed. However, this sacred power also had its negative connotations. In other words the term "loophole of retreat" has about it denotations and connotations that are opposite in meaning. The term" management" may have too many inherited connotations, perhaps of arrogation of command, of assumption of superiority. Only marriage has for him the required social connotations, expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier. In the sixteenth century, labour still had strong religious-moral connotations as a remedy against sinful idleness. Rather, the same connotations were already familiar to the social and intellectual elite of the classical antiquity. Although certain of its theoretical interpretations and political connotations have been rightly criticised, that does not render the term itself unacceptable. Apparently, these supernatural beings did not have one-sided negative connotations, but were also conceptualised in positive terms. The house thereby takes on another character and set of connotations, becoming a cave, as another visitor described it. The 'frivolous' or even 'polluting' connotations of the naked body were perceived as a threat to the sanctity of the most important national monument. If anything, the common feature among them is that any religious connotations remain general. Overall, then, the data suggest varying connotations of parents' value systems as perceived by children. The males gravitate (albeit unconsciously) towards another form in the available inventory that has no obvious social connotations - pretty fits the bill. To medieval readers familiar with the symbolism inherent in numbers, 72 was rich in connotations. 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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