【imperfect】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

词源(Etymology)

From Middle English imperfit, from Old French imparfit (modern French imparfait), from Latin imperfectus. Spelling modified 15c. to conform Latin etymology. See im- +‎ perfect.

发音(Pronunciation)

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/, /ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɛkt/

  • Audio (US)

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ɪmpə(ɹ)ˈfɛkt/

形容词(Adjective)

imperfect (comparative more imperfect, superlative most imperfect)

1. not perfect

   Synonyms: defective, fallible, faultful, faulty

   Antonyms: faultless, infallible, perfect

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene vi]:

     Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons],[…], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Nothing imperfet or deficient left
     Of all that he Created.

   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man.[…], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford,[…], OCLC 960856019:

     Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault;
     Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

2. (botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

   Antonym: perfect

3. (taxonomy) known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.
4. (obsolete) lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
   • 1653, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-five Sermons preached at Golden Grove; being for the Winter Half-year, "Christ's Advent to Judgment"

     He […] stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.

5. (grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

关联词(Related terms)

• imperfection

翻译(Translations)

名词(Noun)

imperfect (plural imperfects)

1. something having a minor flaw
2. (grammar) a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous

   Synonym: preterimperfect

衍生词(Derived terms)

• imperfective

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

imperfect (third-person singular simple present imperfects, present participle imperfecting, simple past and past participle imperfected)

1. (transitive) to make imperfect
   • 1651, John Donne, Letter to Henry Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour, edited by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1910,^[1]

     I write to you from the Spring Garden, whither I withdrew my self to think of this; and the intensenesse of my thinking ends in this, that by my help Gods work should be imperfected, if by any means I resisted the amasement.

   • 1716, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition edited by Samuel Johnson, London: J. Payne, 1756, Part I, p. 43,^[2]

     Time, which perfects some things, imperfects also others.

   • 1962, Alec Harman and Wilfrid Mellers, Man and His Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West, Oxford University Press, Part I, Chapter 5, p. 126,^[3]

     […] such was their desire for greater rhythmic freedom that composers began to use red notes as well. […] Their value was […] restricted at first, for redness implies the imperfecting of a note which is perfect if black […]

Romanian

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /imperˈfekt/

形容词(Adjective)

imperfect m or n (feminine singular imperfectă, masculine plural imperfecți, feminine and neuter plural imperfecte)

1. imperfect

变化形式(Declension)

反义词(Antonyms)

• perfect