Base

(noun.) a support or foundation; 'the base of the lamp'.

(noun.) a place that the runner must touch before scoring; 'he scrambled to get back to the bag'.

(noun.) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector.

(noun.) installation from which a military force initiates operations; 'the attack wiped out our forward bases'.

(noun.) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; 'a tub should sit on its own base'.

(noun.) the principal ingredient of a mixture; 'glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments'; 'he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green'; 'everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base'.

(noun.) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end.

(noun.) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; 'the base of the skull'.

(noun.) the bottom or lowest part; 'the base of the mountain'.

(noun.) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; '10 is the radix of the decimal system'.

(noun.) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; 'the base of the triangle'.

(noun.) any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; 'bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia'.

(verb.) situate as a center of operations; 'we will base this project in the new lab'.

(adj.) debased; not genuine; 'an attempt to eliminate the base coinage' .

(adj.) illegitimate .

(adj.) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; 'that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble'- Edmund Burke; 'taking a mean advantage'; 'chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort'- Shakespeare; 'something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics' .

(adj.) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); 'baseborn wretches with dirty faces'; 'of humble (or lowly) birth' .

(adj.) not adhering to ethical or moral principles; 'base and unpatriotic motives'; 'a base, degrading way of life'; 'cheating is dishonorable'; 'they considered colonialism immoral'; 'unethical practices in handling public funds' .

(adj.) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; 'base coins of aluminum'; 'a base metal' .

录入:莫拉

• But this base attempt to injure Mr. Pickwick recoiled upon the head of its calumnious author. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A commanding general cannot base his actions upon either absolute certainty or absolute ignorance. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The movements of the enemy may justify, or even make it your imperative duty, to cut loose from your base, and strike for the interior to aid Sherman. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• The use of a megaphone or speaking trumpet for conveying the sound of the voice to a distance is based on the same principle. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was a wonderful experience to have problems given me out of the intuitions of a great mind, based on enormous experience in practical work, and applying to new lines of progress. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There is a conception of education which professes to be based upon the idea of development. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The war of the rebellion was no exception to this rule, and the story of the apple tree is one of those fictions based on a slight foundation of fact. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• And this is right in one sense, as the laws of all countries in respect to protection by patents for inventions are based upon the primary condition of benefit to society. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the second place, the interest in experience as a means of basing truth upon objects, upon nature, led to looking at the mind as purely receptive. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• She must be persuaded to tell us, or she must be forced to tell us, on what grounds she bases her belief that you took the Moonstone. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Bases always turn red litmus paper blue. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The suffragist who bases a claim on the so-called logic of democracy is making the poorest possible showing for a good cause. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In this form the diamond resembles two cones united at their bases, the upper one cut off a short distance from its base, the lower one having its extreme point cut off. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Most fats contain a substance of an acid nature, and are decomposed by the action of bases such as caustic soda and caustic potash. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This is the reason why children commonly bear their father's name, and are esteemed to be of nobler or baser birth, according to his family. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The deposition of silver and gold on baser metals not only increases the ornamental effect, but prevents oxidation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• From the very first this flaming enthusiasm was mixed with baser elements. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Now, my dear Mrs Veneering,' quoth Lady Tippins, I appeal to you whether this is not the basest conduct ever known in this world? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

整理:奥蒂斯