Artificial



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解释

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• adj. 人造的, 假的
• ［英］ adj. 人造的, 假的 ( unnatural )
• ［记］ artifice ( 技巧) +ial -> 用技巧做出的人 -> 人工的

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Date: 14th century
• 1. humanly contrived often on a natural model ; man-made an artificial limbartificial diamonds
• 2.
  • a. having existence in legal, economic, or political theory
  • b. caused or produced by a human and especially social or political agency an artificial price advantageartificial barriers of discrimination — R. C. Weaver
• 3. obsolete artful, cunning
• 4.
  • a. lacking in natural or spontaneous quality an artificial smilean artificial excitement
  • b. imitation, sham artificial flavor
• 5. based on differential morphological characters not necessarily indicative of natural relationships an artificial key for plant identification
• • artificiality noun
• • artificially adverb
• • artificialness noun

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