principle
原则,原则上,道理,原理
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Definitions
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- : an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- : a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived: the principles of modern physics.
- : a fundamental doctrine or tenet; a distinctive ruling opinion: the principles of the Stoics.
- : principles, a personal or specific basis of conduct or management: to adhere to one's principles; a kindergarten run on modern principles.
- : guiding sense of the requirements and obligations of right conduct: a person of principle.
- : an adopted rule or method for application in action: a working principle for general use.
- : a rule or law exemplified in natural phenomena, the construction or operation of a machine, the working of a system, or the like: the principle of capillary attraction.
- : the method of formation, operation, or procedure exhibited in a given case: a community organized on the patriarchal principle.
- : a determining characteristic of something; essential quality.
- : an originating or actuating agency or force: growth is the principle of life.
- : an actuating agency in the mind or character, as an instinct, faculty, or natural tendency: the principles of human behavior.
- : Chemistry. a constituent of a substance, especially one giving to it some distinctive quality or effect.
- : Obsolete. beginning or commencement.
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Examples
Overall, many of the principles Barr put forward are unobjectionable in general.
Generally speaking, they do this by creating guidelines and principles for developers, funders, and regulators to follow.
This means that, in principle, an algorithm might learn to represent the meaning of words simply from their distributions in a large amount of text.
You write all human languages are unified by a simple principle.
Abouheif thinks that what is happening in carpenter ants may illustrate a broader principle involving symbioses and evolution.
But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.
Nixon said defending the two islands was “a matter of principle.”
If the noble experiment of American democracy is to mean anything, it is fidelity to the principle of freedom.
Let the record show that espousing principles is common; acting on principle is rare.
The principle that outsiders should be welcomed and provided for was a cross-cultural theme in ancient cultures.
Many so-called "humming tones" are given for practice, but in accepting them observe whether the foregoing principle is obeyed.
The grand thing is to have each of your five fingers go "dum, dum," an equal number of times, which is the principle of all three!
He had hitherto lived for universal man:—his days should terminate on a different principle.
The gauge of railways in Great Britain was not fixed upon any scientific principle.
I have erected above 100 steam-engines on this principle, but never met with one accident or complaint against them.