Efficacy

(noun.) capacity or power to produce a desired effect; 'concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine'.

欧文整理

• The third, those in which the efficacy of industry is either limited or uncertain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It was this weapon which in the Civil War gave proof of the deadly efficacy of the breech-loading magazine gun, and its superiority to the old style military arm. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• And if prayers have efficacy, yours will benefit me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the efficacy of the common and balanced appeal. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Thus taken, the influence of heredity is opposed to that of the environment, and the efficacy of the latter belittled. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We never have any impression, that contains any power or efficacy. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But it is from this resemblance, that the ideas of necessity, of power, and of efficacy, are derived. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The poor woman evidently believed in its efficacy; her only feeling was indignation that her cat had been chosen out from all others for a sacrifice. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• In multiplying this sort of rude produce, therefore, the efficacy of human industry is not only limited, but uncertain. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It would take a strong animal to test the efficacy of his new scheme. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The very mysteriousness of such a cure made her the more confident of its efficacy. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• No cause can succeed without them: so long as you rely on the efficacy of scientific demonstration and logical proof you can hold your conventions in anybody's back parlor and have room to spare. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I can vouch for its efficacy in his case, as it removed the unnatural color in a few days, and he told me that others had tried it with equally gratifying results. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Does it fit into his more direct acquaintance so as to increase its efficacy and deepen its meaning? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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