| Front | rational |
|---|---|
| Pron | ['ræʃnəl] |
| Back | 【RATIONAL】 When people are very angry. They seldom act in a rational way. 人们在盛怒之下，很少理智地行动。 【重点词汇】 rational adj. 理智的 反: irrational |
| Vocab | rationalconsistent with or based on or using reason
Use the adjective rational to describe people or ideas that operate according to logic or reason. While your brother has an artistic temperament, you have a rational one. Rational comes from the Latin word rationalis, meaning reasonable or logical. If you're rational, you do things based on logic, as opposed to impulse or whimsy. The original meaning in English was of something endowed with the ability to reason. Before we knew how smart some animals like dolphins are, writers liked to distinguish rational human minds from the supposedly irrational, instinctual minds of animals. All forms of 'rational' will appear on average once every 288 pages. irrationality irrationally irrational nonrational rational rationalise rationalism rationality rationalize rationally rationalness rationalisation rationalist rationalistic rationalization |
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