英语单词 | entity |
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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 | 1 [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]
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