metaphysics
英 [met?'f?z?ks]
美[,m?t?'f?z?ks]
- n. 玄學，形而上學
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態變化
形容詞:?metaphysical;
中文詞源
metaphysics 形而上學，玄學
來自希臘語ta metaphysika,寫在物理學后面的作品，來自meta,在后，physika,物理，詞源同Physics.原指古希臘哲學家亞里士多德的編輯者在編輯完其物理方面的作品之后編輯其它作品所用的標題，后來被拉丁學者誤解為超越物理的學問，即玄學，引申詞義玄而上學。并由該詞衍生出科學名詞前綴meta-,元，始，玄。
英文詞源
- metaphysics (n.)
- 1560s, plural of Middle English metaphisik, methaphesik (late 14c.), "branch of speculation which deals with the first causes of things," from Medieval Latin metaphysica, neuter plural of Medieval Greek (ta) metaphysika, from Greek ta meta ta physika "the (works) after the Physics," title of the 13 treatises which traditionally were arranged after those on physics and natural sciences in Aristotle's writings. The name was given c.70 B.C.E. by Andronicus of Rhodes, and was a reference to the customary ordering of the books, but it was misinterpreted by Latin writers as meaning "the science of what is beyond the physical." See meta- + physics. The word originally was used in English in the singular; plural form predominated after 17c., but singular made a comeback late 19c. in certain usages under German influence.
雙語例句
- 1. Promote materialist dialectics and oppose metaphysics and scholasticism.
- 要提倡唯物辯證法,反對形而上學和煩瑣哲學.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 2. There is an alliance between logic and metaphysics.
- 邏輯與形而上學之間有類似之處.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. Kant's work on the critique of experience became ultimately indistinguishable from ontology and metaphysics.
- 康德關于經驗的評論著作最終與本體論和形而上學混為一談。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Metaphysics is concerned with the description of the fundamental aspects of reality.
- 形而上學研究的是對現實的根本方面的描述.
來自哲學部分
- 5. He investigates theology, and metaphysics and all sorts of subjects.
- 他研究神學, 還有形而上學,還有各種各樣的學問.
來自辭典例句