gratification
gratification 英 [ˌgrætɪfɪˈkeɪʃn] 美 [ˌɡrætəfɪˈkeʃən]
n. 满意;喜悦;使人满意之事
名词复数:gratifications
- Pleasure is gratification, whether it’s given or received. Everyone has desires, and when those desires get fulfilled, that’s gratification.
- 请先登录
- n. 满意;喜悦;使人满意之事
-
1. And you need some instinctual gratification or you need some instincts to operate well to make life in society possible.
你需要一些本能的满意,或你需要一些能运作良好使,你能适应社会的本能。
-
2. So even to-day, when we fail to see the truth of religion, we seek in its observance an artistic gratification.
所以,甚至在今天,在我们还看不到宗教的真理时,我们只能从宗教的仪式里去寻求艺术的满足。
- gratification (n.) 1590s, "act of gratifying," from Middle French gratification or directly from Latin gratificationem (nominative gratificatio) "obligingness, complaisance," noun of action from past participle stem of gratificari "to please, oblige, do favor to" (see gratify). Meaning "state of being gratified" is by 1712.
- 请先登录
0 个回复