Principle

(noun.) a basic truth or law or assumption; 'the principles of democracy'.

(noun.) a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; 'the principle of the conservation of mass'; 'the principle of jet propulsion'; 'the right-hand rule for inductive fields'.

(noun.) a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; 'their principles of composition characterized all their works'.

(noun.) a rule or standard especially of good behavior; 'a man of principle'; 'he will not violate his principles'.

(noun.) rule of personal conduct.

以斯拉录入

• Reason is wholly inactive, and can never be the source of so active a principle as conscience, or a sense of morals. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This principle we derive from experience, and is the source of most of our philosophical reasonings. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Thus it appears, that the principle, which opposes our passion, cannot be the same with reason, and is only called so in an improper sense. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• For these all follow the general principle, and having found that, we shall have no difficulty in discovering them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The same principle has application on the side of the considerations which concern the relations of one nation to another. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The use of a megaphone or speaking trumpet for conveying the sound of the voice to a distance is based on the same principle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Its great interest for the history of thought lies in the fact that it is the result of seeking the constant in the variable, the unitary principle in the multiple phenomena of nature. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This is what one gets by acting with principle. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The first principle which runs through all art and nature is simplicity; this also is to be the rule of human life. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It is the principle of the fox. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Now, things are wholly changed, and almost every naturalist admits the great principle of evolution. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• As for Betteredge, consistency of principle and dignity of conduct had become, in his case, mere empty words. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He's a pleasant wretch, but he wants principle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• But Huygens, the great Dutch scientist, about 1556 was the first to explain the principles and properties of the pendulum as a time measurer and to apply it most successfully to clocks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No one expects the young to make original discoveries of just the same facts and principles as are embodied in the sciences of nature and man. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• These fundamental principles have since been adopted and incorporated in their laws by all the nations of the earth. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The curse is laid upon them of being and doing what it approves, and when they attempt first principles the failure is ludicrous. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Nor is it less infallible, because men cannot distinctly explain the principles, on which it is founded. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• If it be analogous, we may hope to explain its causes from analogy, and trace it up to more general principles. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• How then shall we adjust those principles together? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I began to feel the force of Mr. John Hobson's remark that if practical workers for social and industrial reforms continue to ignore principles . 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But women, as you may have observed, have no principles. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• These principles I allow to be neither the infallible nor the sole causes of an union among ideas. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was not so unlike her father's principles, and her early training, that it need startle her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The originality of his principles, his eloquence, and his great physical strength and beauty created a profound sensation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The whole system, therefore, is entirely incomprehensible, and yet is derived from principles as natural as any of these above-explained. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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