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Entity Lemonade Separate Medieval Latin Ens Esse 英

英语单词 entity
英美音标 英 ['entəti] 美 ['entəti]
中文释义 n.实体;存在;本质
英语例句 (1) A corporation is treated by the law as an entity.
(2) It describes the change in an entity's state.
中文例句 (1) 法人在法律上被视为一个实体。
(2) 它描述了一个实体的状态变化。
vocabulary简明 If your little sister turns her lemonade stand into a lemonade empire, she might incorporate it as a company. Under the law, it would be considered an entity, or a separate being for purposes of government control.
vocabulary扩展 The word entity originally meant "being, existence," and was borrowed from Medieval Latin entitas, from Latin ens, irregular form of esse "to be, exist." The suffix –ity means "quality or state." Medieval Christian philosophers, influenced by the Church Fathers and Aristotle, discussed the concept of ens "abstract being" versus esse "actual being."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]独立存在体;实体 An entity is something that exists separately from other things and has a clear identity of its own.
  [usu supp N]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • ...the earth as a living entity...

    作为一个有生命的实体的地球

  • North and South will remain separate entities within a commonwealth until the year 2000.

    南方和北方将作为一个政治联合体下的两个独立实体继续存在,直至2000年。

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