Precise

(adj.) sharply exact or accurate or delimited; 'a precise mind'; 'specified a precise amount'; 'arrived at the precise moment' .

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• Nothing could be more precise, exact, and orderly than Greenleaf. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We see this plainly in our own children; we cannot tell whether a child will be tall or short, or what its precise features will be. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We cannot state the precise nature of the thoughts which passed through Mr. Trotter's mind, because we don't know what they were. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Take the words in your precise sense, and tell me whether I am not right. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But however easily we may form these ideas, it is impossible to produce any definition of them, which will fix the precise boundaries betwixt them. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• They had passed the door of their inn, and walked a little way down the village, before they recollected the precise spot in which it stood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He had been so fortunate as toI forget the precise wordsone has no business to remember them. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• He is very precise about dates and facts, and has the power of making us believe that the narrator of the tale must have been an eyewitness. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The medical testimony was more precise and more to the purpose than it sometimes is in a Court of Justice. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Yes--she's been abominably treated; but it's unfortunately the precise thing that a man who wants to show his sympathy can't say to her. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Do you think your habits are as precise and methodical as--shall I say as mine are? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was the precise, crackling, curling roll of automatic rifle fire. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• No definition can be just--too precise a one can only deceive us into thinking that our definition is true. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• They were both upright in their carriage, formal, precise, composed, and quiet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• We know how far off is the profound and precise knowledge we desire. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Did he mention the precise order of occupation to which he would addict himself? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Why then isn't there a budget, a large, comprehensive budget, precise and informing, in which provision is made for beginning to civilize Chicago? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• On the margin was written, in Holmes's precise hand: The second most dangerous man in London. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Still, I said, let us have a more precise statement of terms, lest we should hereafter fall out by the way. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If I remember rightly, you on one occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits in a very precise fashion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Their employment is confined almost to a precise spot, to the farm, and to the shop of the retailer. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Will soon come to London, said I, after casting about for a precise form of words, or summon me anywhere else? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was characteristic of the man that the direction was a precise, and the writing as firm and clear, as though it had been written in his study. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Indeed, Will had declined to fix on any more precise destination than the entire area of Europe. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We shall now correct this fault by giving a precise definition of cause and effect. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It naturally aims at bringing always that precise quantity thither which may be sufficient to supply, and no more than supply, that demand. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For a hundred needs of the nation it has no thought, but about the precise morality of an historical transaction eight years old there is a meticulous interest. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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