narrowness

英

美

网络  狭隘; 心胸狭小; 狭窄; 狭隘性

BNC.19021 / COCA.27659

英英释义

noun

• a small margin
  1. the president was not humbled by his narrow margin of victory
  2. the landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote
  Synonym:narrow marginslimness
• the property of being narrow
  1. the narrowness of the road
• a restriction of range or scope
  1. the problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students
  2. the attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus
  3. frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons
• an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior
  Synonym:narrow-mindedness

双语例句

• For all its complacency and narrowness, the Davos consensus did actually serve the world pretty well in the 30 years running up to the financial crisis.
  达沃斯的共识尽管存在自满与狭隘，但它在金融危机爆发之前的30年里的确对世界起到了有益的作用。
• The educator must free himself of his own narrowness and confusion, by knowing himself completely, and be unafraid of looking into his own conditioned mindset.
  为人之师必需摒弃分裂，混乱和狭溢的思想状态，首先完全的认识自我，无畏惧的深入观查自己的面俱一&层层被人世经历所程序化的心态。
• I could not avoid communicating to her something of what lay hardest upon my mind and particularly the narrowness of my circumstance.
  我免不了告诉她一些压在我心头上的最沉重的事情，尤其是我财力拮据的情况。
• The shortcoming of Zen aesthetic studies lies in the narrowness both of research methods and perspective.
  禅美学研究的不足在于研究方法、研究角度存在着视野狭窄的问题。
• He is blamed that his setting is too narrow, but his narrowness has its own significance.
  有人指责其小说背景过于狭窄，但这个狭窄背景更具有其特殊意义。
• He criticized the narrowness of the range of opinion represented.
  他对意见所体现的范围的局限性提出了批评。
• And while I may speak more about the narrowness of my very circumscribed life than their real worth, just the fact that they're sitting there, waiting for me, makes me happy.
  也许我更经常提到自己那比其实际价值更加狭隘的局限生活，仅仅看着它们坐在那儿，等待着我，我就感到幸福不已。
• I have done so myself, castigating Chinese policymakers for the narrowness of their perspective.
  我自己就这样做过：严厉斥责中国政策制定者视野狭窄。
• Regarding the understanding of "dance" and "modern dance," to different degrees of narrowness many people simply believe that it is an artistic activity only for professionals.
  而且在对“舞蹈”或“现代舞”的理解上，存在不同程度的狭囿，简单地认为它是一项专属业内人士的艺术活动。
• One who is entirely dependent upon the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness.
  一个完全依赖手写字母来交流的人总会感觉到处处受限。