based on general ideas and not on any particular real person, thing or situation 抽象的(与个别情况相对);纯理论的 abstract knowledge/principles 理论知识;抽象原理 The research shows that pre-school children are capable of thinking in abstract terms. 研究显示,学前儿童具有抽象思维的能力。
Extra ExamplesAbstract principles are no good in this particular situation. 抽象的原则在这种特殊情况下是没有用的。 All human beings are capable of thinking in abstract terms. 所有人类都有能力用抽象的术语思考。
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existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical reality 抽象的(与具体经验相对) Extra ExamplesMathematics is an extremely abstract discipline. 数学是一门极其抽象的学科。 Some of the ideas that their legal system is based on are incredibly abstract. 他们的法律体系所基于的一些理念是非常抽象的。 Freedom is more than a purely abstract notion. 自由并不仅仅是一个纯粹抽象的概念。
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(of art )艺术 not representing people or things in a realistic way, but expressing the artist’s ideas about them 抽象(派)的 the work of American abstract expressionists like Mark Rothko 马克·罗斯科等美国抽象表现主义者的作品
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Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin abstractus, literally ‘drawn away’, past participle of abstrahere, from ab- ‘from’ + trahere ‘draw off’.