1An abstract idea.

构造主义是一种难懂的概念。

正义的观念。

1. 1.1 A plan or intention.
   计划；打算；设计
   the centre has kept firmly to its original concept

   中间派坚定地维持原有计划。

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   • Ernst and Young are putting together our business plan and the whole concept is coming together very well.
   • Their overall concept and attack plan was different, but they shared some of the same traits regarding the way they could adapt.
   • GFA initiated the concept and plan of the review.
   • Formulating a design and a plan, from original concept to finished product, can take up to a week.
   • Each tour brings a new level to the original concept.
   • The expectation is that key personnel already are aware of the relevant doctrinal and planning concepts.
   • He has plans to promote his concept across all major metros of the country.
   • Schlieffen's exercise of 1905 has been described as that in which he revealed his concept for the Plan.
   • As one person described it, more of a concept than a plan at this point, with a lot of things still need to be worked out.
   • As the first day of rehearsals drew closer, I changed my music selection three times, each time rejecting a concept and plans for a ballet.
   • The author revisits the concept and plans for the facility, and investigates the economics and politics of the time that lead to its demise.
   • I think the impression of the completed film is the same as the original concept we had planned.
   • Another challenge for the modular concept is how to plan for contingencies that require CSS modules.
   • This first article in a series on the plan examines the concepts behind focused logistics
   • The BCC plans to introduce the concept of garbage segregation at the source itself - that is at homes.
   • We based our whole concept planning and timelines on what they assured us was going to go down.
   • He has plans to take the concept to Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune soon.
   • And we also plan to introduce the concept of accountability in the NHI system.
   • More effort focused on the commander's intention, the concept, will reap great dividends for the commander and staff.
   • This process engages political processes to translate new concepts and plans into official policy.
2. 1.2 An idea or invention to help sell or publicize a commodity.
   （促销或宣传商品的）创意，主意
   a new concept in corporate hospitality

   关于公司如何款待客户的新主意。

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   • If the new store did well, Seymour would have a proven concept that he could sell in five years to someone interested in taking it national.
   • These are marketing decisions and I would not presume to know which concepts sell and which are an anathema.
   • This exercise is all part of selling the museum concept and all promised to tell their friends about the area.
   • The concept would then be sold on to a suitable developer.
   • While the concept was ‘sold’ to the industry as a way of reducing costs, these have, in fact, increased dramatically.
   • A friend told me yesterday that he had just sold a TV concept on behalf of a famous author he represents.
   • He used good science as the foundation for a public policy solution and good marketing to sell the concept to community leaders.
   • Early last year he tried to sell the concept to two large makers of men's grooming products, only to be rebuffed.
   • The said the doll would be a hard concept to sell their customers.
   • The product being sold is less clear, and the concept being sold is lost.
   • O'Driscoll said he had been trying to sell the concept to wholesalers and retailers throughout the UK.
   • It's also hoping that the concept might be sold elsewhere, although for now there have been no ‘concrete offers’.
   • The core infrastructure of the internet is now a commodity and the concept of standard web services is being accepted.
   • As with other products, glassware decisions are usually only as important as what it is your concept sells the most.
   • Everything I was clinging onto at that time was defined by it and the trouble was I managed to sell the concept only too well.
   • They still offer their original concept where they provide single-use cameras for use during camp sessions.
   • PDAs and smart phones have sold the concept of ultra-portability to millions of users worldwide, but not without a few caveats.
   • Northwave says it plans to broaden the concept to mountain and road shoes.
   • Vendors are not selling the concept of return on investment in IT, he said because they are making too much money on the number of copies and prints made.
   • He struggled a lot selling his concept and then making films with a message.
3. 1.3as modifier (of a car or other vehicle) produced as an experimental model to test the viability of innovative design features.
   样品；概念（车）（汽车或其他交通工具设计中为检测车辆的创新设计能否经受考验而生产的实验模型）
   a concept car for next month's Geneva motor show

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   • Kia and Hyundai both showed intriguing concept cars at this year's Detroit auto show.
   • Kort and Sancer were recruited to design concept cars for the auto-show circuit.
   • One of the most famous concept cars of the 20th century was a Buick.
   • It is the same process automakers use when unveiling concept vehicles.
   • Toyota's Tokyo concept cars bear the first fruits of its new design objectives.
   • No motor show would be complete without an array of concept cars and Geneva certainly didn't disappoint.
   • For a number of years, composites have been a popular material for concept cars.
   • Millions of people attend car shows to marvel over old cars and new concept vehicles.
   • And concept cars are niche vehicles almost by nature, and niches are places the majors visit all too infrequently.
   • All comments, printed or not, panned the design of the concept vehicle as dull and even pathetic.
   • One of the best features of every auto show is the concept vehicles each automaker showcases to the public.
   • It was the first Chrysler concept vehicle to explore the new look.
   • I certainly see there is plenty of good automotive art in this mix of new models and concept wagons.
   • Hella unveiled a working prototype of such a system on the Volvo SCC safety concept car in April 2001.
   • And it is those concept cars that are supposed to excite and enthuse the car-buying public.
   • Generally, really good concept cars serve as models for much milder production vehicles at some point.
   • I have mentioned only a few of the multitude of new vehicles and concept cars that were on display, some of which you may already have seen at last year's Birmingham Motor Show.
   • The Tokyo Motor Show is not the antic sideshow of wacky and improbable concept vehicles it once was.
   • Throughout most of the 1990s, Chrysler's concept vehicles got most of the buzz.
   • A few years back, there was a tiny overflow of concept cars outside the Convention Center.
4. 1.4Philosophy An idea or mental image which corresponds to some distinct entity or class of entities, or to its essential features, or determines the application of a term (especially a predicate), and thus plays a part in the use of reason or language.
   〔哲〕思想；概念
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   • Society's use of a term partly determines the concepts of individuals in the society, even of such medically ignorant individuals as Bert.
   • The content of the dispositional concept thus presupposes the virtual-color concept.
   • It is essential to the concept of belief that there should be differences of opinion, so that we attribute false as well as true beliefs.
   • The application of the concept following a rule presupposes a custom.
   • A strict ideational theory requires that all the criterial beliefs be satisfied in the correct application of the concept.