Unity

(n.) The state of being one; oneness.

(n.) Concord; harmony; conjunction; agreement; uniformity; as, a unity of proofs; unity of doctrine.

(n.) Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudes taken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus, in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded as unity.

(n.) In dramatic composition, one of the principles by which a uniform tenor of story and propriety of representation are preserved; conformity in a composition to these; in oratory, discourse, etc., the due subordination and reference of every part to the development of the leading idea or the eastablishment of the main proposition.

(n.) Such a combination of parts as to constitute a whole, or a kind of symmetry of style and character.

(n.) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.

编辑:诺拉

• As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• China recovered her unity; Europe has still to do so. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This unity is like the sun in the heavens, the light by which all things are seen, the being by which they are created and sustained. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I would allow the State to increase so far as is consistent with unity; that, I think, is the proper limit. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• To picture to ourselves something of the wider life that world unity would open to men is a very attractive speculation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Even its unity was as yet a mere unity for defence and freedom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It meant unity, sustained on a scale that would otherwise have been impossible. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We pass on now to the story of one futile commencement, one glorious shattered beginning of human unity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Think of all this and ask yourself whether the world is more likely to be a believer in the unity of the idea, or in the multiplicity of phenomena. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The Unity of Subject Matter and Method. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Common subject matter accustoms all to a unity of outlook upon a broader horizon than is visible to the members of any group while it is isolated. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Only conquest from the outside could unite the Greeks, and until Greece was conquered they had no political unity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If it divided the world among the kings, it made respectful gestures towards human unity and the service of God and man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But of course the wooden seat is wrong--it destroys the perfect lightness and unity in tension the cane gave. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

编辑:迈尔斯