Essence

(noun.) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted.

沙琳编辑

• It is of the very essence, for instance, of envy to be uneasy and disquieted. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Well, if so much of unholy force can arise from below, may not an equal efflux of sacred essence descend one day from above? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Deity unquestioned, thine essence foils decay! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• And he added: So far as the central essence of this feeling goes, no healthy minded person, it seems to me, can help to some degree partaking of it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Heat itself, its essence, is motion and nothing else . 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The soft hair whose locks were loosened she rearranged, the damp brow she refreshed with a cool, fragrant essence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It must therefore touch it intimately, and in its whole essence, SECUNDUM SE, TOTA, ET TOTALITER; which is the very definition of penetration. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Conformity, not transformation, is the essence of education. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The uneasiness and satisfaction are not only inseparable from vice and virtue, but constitute their very nature and essence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• If self-denial be the essence of virtue, then it follows that the man who is naturally temperate, just, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Is not general incivility the very essence of love? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I'm inclined to think that laziness is what your old Dr. Botherem, up in Vermont, used to call the 'essence of moral evil. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• To maintain capacity for such education is the essence of morals. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And, conversely, that which has less of truth will also have less of essence? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• They ain't Pills, or Hair-Washes, or Invigorating Nervous Essences, to be puffed in that way! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Assuming that the souls of men and women were visible essences, you could fancy the colour of Eustacia's soul to be flamelike. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• A multitude whose tendencies could be perceived, though not its essences. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They made tinctures, essences, and syrups. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

校对:玛吉