Experiment

(noun.) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation.

(noun.) a venture at something new or different; 'as an experiment he decided to grow a beard'.

(noun.) the testing of an idea; 'it was an experiment in living'; 'not all experimentation is done in laboratories'.

(verb.) to conduct a test or investigation; 'We are experimenting with the new drug in order to fight this disease'.

(verb.) try something new, as in order to gain experience; 'Students experiment sexually'; 'The composer experimented with a new style'.

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• All Russia now is a huge experiment in that dictatorship (August, 1920). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Well, you know, Standish, every dose you take is an experiment-an experiment, you know, said Mr. Brooke, nodding towards the lawyer. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We have turned our attention to that experiment, on the suggestion of my family, and we find it fallacious. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is more laborious to accumulate facts than to reason concerning them; but one good experiment is of more value than the ingenuity of a brain like Newton's. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I knew what the result of such an experiment would be. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Notwithstanding the establishment of a regular routine of manufacture and sale, Edison did not cease to experiment for improvement. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Nichols was also with us for a short time conducting a special series of experiments. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The German government paid $1,250,000 into the Zeppelin fund for experiments, and contributed a large sum in addition to the maintenance of a balloon corps. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• There is nothing of the helter-skelter, slap-dash style in Edison's experiments. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He made experiments, and at last succeeded in rendering the copper negatively electrical by the use of small pieces of tin, zinc, or iron nails. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Edison himself began at that point, and his note-books show that he made various experiments with this type of lamp at a very early stage. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mr. Edison himself supplies the following data: During the electric-railway experiments at Menlo Park, we had a short spur of track up one of the steep gullies. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Phelps, another investigator, who had been experimenting along the same lines and had taken out several patents. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Experimenting on the machine swallowed a great deal of capital, and the stockholders of the company he had formed became impatient. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The question of stacking ensilage is sometimes raised, being urged upon our people by the practice of our English friends, who are experimenting quite largely in this direction. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It contained innumerable devices that he had worked out during the years he had been experimenting at his factory. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Again, in experimenting on the telephone, I had to improve the transmitter so I could hear it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• John Stevens, the most celebrated boat builder and engineer of his day, was actively experimenting in America in the same line. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In speaking of Edison's method of experimenting, another of his laboratory staff says: He is never hindered by theory, but resorts to actual experiment for proof. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He experimented with bundles of iron wires variously insulated, also with sheet-iron rolled cylindrically and covered with iron wire wound concentrically. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He made designs for firearms and experimented with guns to learn the carrying distance of various bores and balls. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They had been far more thorough and more resourceful than those Europeans who had for some time experimented with aviation. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• For sixteen years Palissy experimented. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He took up the question, experimented with fire-damp, and found that it was in reality light carburetted hydrogen. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Sebright expressly experimented with this object and failed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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