metaphysical
英 [metə'fɪzɪk(ə)l]
美 [,mɛtə'fɪzɪkl]
TEM8 GRE
1. beyond physic => beyond nature.
- metaphysical (adj.)
- early 15c., "pertaining to metaphysics," from methaphesik (late 14c.) + -al, and in part from Medieval Latin metaphysicalis, from Medieval Latin metaphysica (see metaphysics). It came to be used in the sense of "abstract, speculative" (among others by Johnson, who applied it to certain 17c. poets, notably Donne and Cowley, who used "witty conceits" and abstruse imagery). Related: Metaphysically.
- 1. Their argument was too metaphysical for me to follow.
- 他们的辩论太深奥,我搞不懂.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 2. The modern poets have gone back to the fanciful poems of the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century for many of their images.
- 现代派诗人就其许多想象又回到了十七世纪极抽象派诗人的意象诗中.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 3. These are typical metaphysical questions: What is mind?
- 下面这些是典型的形而上学问题: 精神是什么?
来自哲学部分
- 4. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability.
- 一切麻烦和所有现实都一变而为玄妙空幻、无从捉摸的东西.
来自辞典例句
- 5. The concept of justice was likewise stripped of its metaphysical attributes.
- 同样,人们还剥去了正义概念超自然的灵光.
来自辞典例句
