Basis

(noun.) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; 'the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture'.

(noun.) the most important or necessary part of something; 'the basis of this drink is orange juice'.

录入:雷内

• In the main, however, this work is an attempt to find a basis for ethics in natural p henomena. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Lambert (1728-1777), Kant found a genius akin to his own, and through him hoped for a reformation of philosophy on the basis of the study of science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Sanders’ United States patent, 21,027, July 27, 1858, was the basis of an experiment tried at the Girard House in Philadelphia. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Moreover, we know nowadays that even a universal education of this sort supplies only the basis for a healthy republican state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Papin in 1695, Savary in 1698, and Newcomen in 1705, were the pioneers of Watt, and gave to him a good working basis. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A new philosophical basis is becoming increasingly necessary to socialism--one that may not be truer than the old materialism but that shall simply be more useful. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He carried the production of machine-made pins to a commercial basis. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Practically it served as the basis of some real telegraphic work, but is not now in use. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• An eminent physiologist thinks it worth while 'to try and place life on a physical basis. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is interesting to note that discoveries and inventions, which may seem slight in themselves, sometimes form the basis of, or contribute to, other important inventions. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The result is that the three negatives, instead of each being a true unit, ready for combination with the others, is really only a basis for further work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The ammonia can in turn be oxidized to nitric acid, which is the basis of all explosives. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Owing to keen insight and fine sympathy her thinking has generally been on a human basis. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Uncouth and clumsy doors, windows and blinds, were framed on the simplest utilitarian basis, and a scanty supply of rude hand-made furniture imperfectly filled the simple wants of the home. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The engines that Mr. Blackett had built, using Trevethick’s model as a basis, were working daily near the Killingworth Colliery, and Stephenson frequently went over to see them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Bases always turn red litmus paper blue. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The suffragist who bases a claim on the so-called logic of democracy is making the poorest possible showing for a good cause. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In this form the diamond resembles two cones united at their bases, the upper one cut off a short distance from its base, the lower one having its extreme point cut off. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Most fats contain a substance of an acid nature, and are decomposed by the action of bases such as caustic soda and caustic potash. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• At their bases there is a short subsidiary row of obliquely transverse lamellae. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The trough battery was used by Sir Humphry Davy in his series of great experiments--1806-1808--in which he isolated the metallic bases, calcium, sodium, potassium, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature--and six more shapely columns do not exist. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The evil results of an accident with acid can be lessened if we know just what to do and do it quickly, but for this we must have a knowledge of bases, the second group of chemicals. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In 333 B.C., pursuing this attack upon the sea bases, he marched along the coast as far as the head of the gulf now called the Gulf of Alexandretta. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Bases, like acids, are good or bad according to their use; if they come in contact with cloth, they eat or discolor it, unless neutralized by an acid. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• These more active bases are generally called alkalies in distinction from the less active ones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The tribe shivering from the cold rain, huddled at the bases of great trees. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• But this property of bases, harmful in one way, is put to advantage in the home, where grease is removed from drainpipe and sink by the application of lye, a strong base. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The interaction of acids and bases may be observed in another way. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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