Mastery

(noun.) the act of mastering or subordinating someone.

巴顿整理

• In the year 1896 three important advances were made in man's mastery of his environment. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He had no iron mastery of his sensations now; a trifling emotion made itself apparent in his present weak state. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Needless to say, mastery of its literature is regarded by him as a most important preliminary in taking up any line of investigation. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This sense of mastery in a winning battle against the conditions of our life is, I believe, the social myth that will inspire our reconstructions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I wondered how many other clerks there were upstairs, and whether they all claimed to have the same detrimental mastery of their fellow-creatures. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Here was another weight of chain to drag, and poor Lydgate was in a bad mood for bearing her dumb mastery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Discipline means power at command; mastery of the resources available for carrying through the action undertaken. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• In the seventeenth century, the store was still small enough so that men set up the ideal of a complete encyclopedic mastery of it. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• First I taught them that they could not unseat me, and even rapped them sharply between the ears to impress upon them my authority and mastery. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The man of low cunning had, of course, acquired a mastery over the man of high simplicity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was one art in the mastery of which nothing mortal ever surpassed Mr. Donne: it was that of begging. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I thought I had more strength and mastery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Civilization is the progressive mastery of its varied energies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It marks an inquiring, hunting, searching attitude, instead of one of mastery and possession. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It is a part of Mr. Tulkinghorn's policy and mastery to have no political opinions; indeed, NO opinions. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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