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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

ideals

/ahy-dee-uhl, ahy-deel/US // aɪˈdi əl, aɪˈdil //UK // (aɪˈdɪəl) //

理想,理想主义,理想化,理想状态

Related Words

optimal最佳,优化,最优,最优化fitting契合,适宜,适宜的,拟合quintessential典型的,最典型的,精髓,最典型的是excellent优秀,优秀的unattainable遥不可及,遥不可及的,可望而不可及,可望不可及unreal虚幻的,虚幻,虚无缥缈,不真实的goal目标,宗旨,宗旨是perfection完善,完美,完美的,完美性standard标准,标准的classical古典,古典的,经典的,经典classic经典,经典的,经典之作,经典案例representative代表,代表性,代表性的,有代表性的absolute绝对的,绝对abstract抽象的,抽象,抽取,抽象派visionary有远见的人,愿景者,有远见者,远见卓识intellectual知识分子,知识份子,知识分子的,知识份子的utopian乌托邦,乌托邦式的,乌托邦式,乌托邦的hypothetical假设性的,假定的,假设性,假定性的imaginary虚构的,虚构,想象的,虚幻的nonesuch不像有的人,不像,不像有的人那样

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a conception of something in its perfection.
    • : a standard of perfection or excellence.
    • : a person or thing conceived as embodying such a conception or conforming to such a standard, and taken as a model for imitation: Thomas Jefferson was his ideal.
    • : an ultimate object or aim of endeavor, especially one of high or noble character: He refuses to compromise any of his ideals.
    • : something that exists only in the imagination: To achieve the ideal is almost hopeless.
    • : Mathematics. a subring of a ring, any element of which when multiplied by any element of the ring results in an element of the subring.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : conceived as constituting a standard of perfection or excellence: ideal beauty.
    • : regarded as perfect of its kind: an ideal spot for a home.
    • : existing only in the imagination; not real or actual: Nature is real; beauty is ideal.
    • : advantageous; excellent; best: It would be ideal if she could accompany us as she knows the way.
    • : based upon an ideal or ideals: the ideal theory of numbers.
    • : Philosophy. pertaining to a possible state of affairs considered as highly desirable.pertaining to or of the nature of idealism.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmoral beliefs
Synonyms
ethics伦理学,伦理,道德规范,道德goals目标principles原则,原则性,原则上,原则上说standards标准,标准的,标准的制定values价值,价值观,价值观念,数值

Examples

  • A soldier in the service of ideals and aspirations that formed his core.

  • Could he have won the White House in 1992, and if he had, would he have lived up to his ideals?

  • But even they should see the marches as expressions of our best and highest ideals.

  • Soon enough, Castro turned his back on those ideals, embracing Soviet style communism.

  • A minimum wage is consistent with conservative ideals, for four reasons.

  • In practice one party seems about as bad as the other, but at least the Democratic ideals more nearly correspond with my own.

  • God knows, all that we have now are a bitter disappointment to those of us with any of the old ideals left.

  • Mrs. Wheaton, for all her petty airs and evil-scenting profile, was really a woman of high ideals.

  • A stream never rises above its source, nor a home above the ideals of its founders.

  • The poems inspired by the love of the ancient ideals and literature of Provence are very beautiful.

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