Tentative

(a.) Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.

(n.) An essay; a trial; an experiment.

编辑:利拉

• It was a tentative reply, the man having a seafaring appearance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The next matter was the financing of the trip, about which Mr. Edison asked in a tentative way about the rates to the East. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• At best they are tentative; they are suggestions, indications. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Riviere continued to study him with tentative eyes. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• She made all European progress seem sluggish and tentative by comparison. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As his words are few and his manner reticent and tentative, so must the style of his interpreter be. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The conclusions of thinking, till confirmed by the event, are, accordingly, more or less tentative or hypothetical. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Tentative means trying out, feeling one's way along provisionally. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The projection of consequences means a proposed or tentative solution. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The possibility of hypothetical conclusions, of tentative results, is the fact which the Greek dilemma overlooked. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The aim as it first emerges is a mere tentative sketch. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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