Multiplicity

(noun.) the property of being multiple.

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• Here's a disaster--a multiplicity of disasters in short, as Lady Berwick said one day, when the compound evils fell upon her. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• I was just beginning to suspect from the multiplicity of your questions that you did. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The multiplicity of its appeals--the perpetual surprise of its contrasts and resemblances! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Think of all this and ask yourself whether the world is more likely to be a believer in the unity of the idea, or in the multiplicity of phenomena. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He paid homage both to the multiplicity and the uniform ity of nature, the wealth of the phenomena and the simplicity of the law explaining the phenomena. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Then, I said, if these and these only are to be used in our songs and melodies, we shall not want multiplicity of notes or a panharmonic scale? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In 1763 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny (see Fig. 285), in which a multiplicity of spindles was employed, whereby one person could attend to the making of many threads simultaneously. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• This saves the duplication and multiplicity of a vast number of extra keys. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• On the other hand, a multiplicity of objects can never convey this idea, however resembling they may be supposed. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The former secures unity, order, and law; the latter signify multiplicity and discord, irrational fluctuations from one estate to another. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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