| 释义 |
principle noun—则 n (almost always used) 正 n Examples:put one's own safety before matters of principle—Heisenberg's uncertainty principle (1927)—study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge—speak out for justice (idiom); to take a stand on a matter of principle—lit. heaven's law and earth's principle (idiom); fig. right and proper—literary name (an alternative name of person stressing a moral principle)—agnosticism, the philosophical doctrine that some questions about the universe are in principle unanswerable—mercy as the guiding principle (idiom); the Buddhist teaching that nothing is valid except compassion—study the underlying principle to acquire knowledge (idiom); pursuing knowledge to the end—One-China principle, the official doctrine that Taiwan is a province of China—variational principle (physics)—take as a guiding principle [idiom.]— |