Quality

(noun.) an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; 'the quality of mercy is not strained'--Shakespeare.

(noun.) a degree or grade of excellence or worth; 'the quality of students has risen'; 'an executive of low caliber'.

(noun.) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; 'each town has a quality all its own'; 'the radical character of our demands'.

(noun.) high social status; 'a man of quality'.

(adj.) of high social status; 'people of quality'; 'a quality family' .

整理:希欧多尔

• He, the noble, the warlike, the great in every quality that can adorn the mind and person of man; he is fitted to be the Protector of England. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The quality of hotels is shown by an inn with one, two, three, or four gables, and so forth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• In quality and tone it is a fair sample of British political thought in 1919. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• As experiences they have both an artistic and an esthetic quality. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He did not believe in spontaneous alterations, but found that every marked change in the quality of beer coincides with the development of micro-organism s. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Best brands Georgian, none in market; second quality, 1851, L180. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They were then carried through the receiving armature and reproduced on the receiving diaphragm, with all the same characteristics of pitch, loudness and quality. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Such was the quality of most of the leaders of the Jacobin party. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• From this quality it is easily conceived why it should be connected with the sense of beauty. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Deteriorated, that is to say, in the good qualities of horses, not of dogs? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Having discovered this relation, which requires no farther examination, I am curious to find some other of their qualities. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He stamped these qualities upon his time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is therefore from the influence of characters and qualities, upon those who have an intercourse with any person, that we blame or praise him. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Harriet Smith has some first-rate qualities, which Mrs. Elton is totally without. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• These qualities, then, are, properly speaking, the causes of our vanity, by means of their relation to ourselves. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• They are put together with a double-lapped spiral seam to give expansion-resisting qualities, and as an additional precaution small metal rings are slipped on the outside. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Philosophers begin to be reconciled to the principle, that we have no idea of external substance, distinct from the ideas of particular qualities. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Thirdly, The nature and qualities of that idea. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• With all these qualities, why are you not in practice? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• You, who opposed to both, when your hair was grey, the qualities which made both when you gave him birth! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

校对:尼古拉斯