Artificial

(adj.) artificially formal; 'that artificial humility that her husband hated'; 'contrived coyness'; 'a stilted letter of acknowledgment'; 'when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation' .

(adj.) contrived by art rather than nature; 'artificial flowers'; 'artificial flavoring'; 'an artificial diamond'; 'artificial fibers'; 'artificial sweeteners' .

(adj.) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes .

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• Artificial purely. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• De Chardonnet’s Process of Making Artificial Silk. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• About 300 patents have been granted for artificial legs and arms. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• You know that these have to be manufactured by artificial light, as exposure to sunlight always results in an explosion. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• We know how human nature may be degraded; we do not know how by artificial means any improvement in the breed can be effected. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The hides are all hung in a dry loft, where artificial heat of different temperatures is used until they are thoroughly dry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At Dewlish in Dorset, an artificial trench has been found which is supposed to have been a Pal?olithic trap for elephants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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