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universal

英 [juːnɪ'vɜːs(ə)l] 美['jʊnə'vɝsl]

英语单词universal

英英释义同义词辨析考试真题实用场景例句

adj. 普遍的；通用的；宇宙的；全世界的；全体的
n. 一般概念；普通性

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Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

Even if they could, SimpliSafe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.

The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.

Brent Ryan, who teaches urban design at MIT, says Songdo proves a universal principle.

Even if they could, Simpli Safe claims that its system is always evolving, and that it varies slightly from system to system, which means there wouldn't be a universal magic formula for cracking it.

It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.

Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In contrast to each of these ideas, Covey advocates that leaders need to understand universal principles of effectiveness, and he highlights how vital it is for leaders to first personally manage themselves if they are to enjoy any hope of outstanding success in their work environments.

Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

Whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.

The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality identifying traits ( ' , particularly in word order) shared by many language which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

The most famous of these efforts was initiated by Noam Chomsky, who suggested that humans are born with an innate language-acquisition capacity that dictates a universal grammar.

Since the days of Aristotle, a search for universal principles has characterized the scientific enterprise.

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are lire age-specific and not governed by universals.

Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.