narrowness

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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

• The fact that many executives serve on multiple boards only reinforces the narrowness of the business leader pool.
  实际上，许多高管同时在多家公司董事会任职，这只会让商业领袖的人才库日益枯竭。
• Given that an election is a market in which politicians offer goods they think voters want, it makes more sense to blame the narrowness on the electorate.
  考虑到大选是一个政客们提供他们认为选民想要的商品的市场，把议题狭窄归咎于选民更讲得通。
• As for the determination of the boundary between the Zhujiang River and the sea, the river mouth cross section, which is changing from narrowness to broadness while the river running into the sea, can not be regarded as the boundary line.
  大河河海划界不能简单地把河流入海由窄变宽的口门断面作为河海分界线。
• Two beds taking up nearly the whole space, the narrowness of this house could even barely allow a small area for a table.
  就在这狭小的里间，还被两张床占去了几乎所有空间，只留下不足一面桌子大小的地方。
• The narrowness of the streets caused many traffic problems.
  街道狭窄，造成很多交通问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Urethra damage showed the temporary filling defect or rigid marginated narrowness, with typical damage history.
  尿道损伤则表现为暂时性的充盈缺损或边缘较僵直的狭窄段，有典型的外伤史；
• Windows in various sizes that show outside views were installed to resolve narrowness of the space.
  大小不同的窗户展示户外的景色，它们的存在解决了空间的狭窄感。