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pre-socratic

/pree-suh-krat-ik, -soh-/US // ˌpri səˈkræt ɪk, -soʊ- //

前苏格拉底,前苏格拉底式,前苏格拉底时代,前苏格拉底的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any philosopher of this period.

Examples

  • He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.

  • At that time, pre -9/11, the links were more subtle and had to be hunted down.

  • While in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.

  • At his year-end, pre-Hawaii press conference, we caught a rare glimpse of peak Obama.

  • Instead, the military commission proceedings are bogged down in a pre-trial phase, as it has been for the past three years.

  • The Spaniards, indeed, feigned to regard them only as a remnant of the rebels who had joined the pre-existing brigand bands.

  • Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.

  • From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.

  • Dr. Wilson says, in the statistical accounts of Scotland, many of which are suggestive of a pre-Raleigh period.

  • Offered to Him that liveth for ever and ever, it celebrates his eternal pre-existence and existence to eternal ages.