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单词 improvable
例句 improvable
“Adams was not inclined to believe mankind improvable, but was certain it was important that human nature be understood.” David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z
His story shows, he says, that “our memories are indeed improvable” and that there are established techniques — pioneered by the Greeks and Romans — to help train the brain. Books of The Times: Remember: It?s Important Not to Forget 2011-03-07T17:58:36Z
"There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative." Geoff Dyer is out of his depth in 'Another Great Day at Sea' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z
How athletes translate mere physicality into phenomenal performance and tremendous plasticity — how they are so astoundingly improvable — is a beautiful mystery of temporal processing. Perspective | How do we draw the line between sports cheaters and sports strivers? 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z
“All the techniques are very crude at present but they're all improvable, and the data science is only getting better.” Mining the secrets of college syllabuses 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z
The more important question is – are you improvable 2 Out of 3 Of Us Want This More Than We Want a A Raise 2012-10-18T02:16:23Z
There are some objectionable lines, and others that are improvable, of which I am myself aware. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z
You will notice a great many points in which it is improvable; that is to say, a great many respects in which you might properly wish it otherwise. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z
We have just pointed out the importance of reserving the schools for defectives for improvable cases. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z
When you tell him that his soul is not improvable by material conditions, you prevent him from making himself better than he is. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
Length of the Inter-Glacial—Man an improvable being—Implements improved—Art of engraving begun—Religious nature—Denton's description of primeval man—Language improved. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z
It will be more to the point, after have said so much upon improving books, to say a word or two about the improvable reader. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work
This witness, I should add, is strongly in favour of larger asylums for even curable cases, and would classify the institutions for the insane into three classes, the curable, the improvable, and the incurable. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles
But it is necessary to correct this word "improvable," because all defectives can be improved more or less. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z
Organization is improvable, the intelligence becomes more powerful as the organization is fully developed, and the conditions which surround man are made more pure. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
Man is an improvable being, and some advancement may be expected in his condition. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z
My object will be to obtain a farm of large acreage and poor land, but improvable by better drainage and an outlay of capital. Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers
The Goths were "improvable barbarians;" but the Huns whom Attila led to ravage the fair peninsula were mere Tartar savages of the lowest stamp. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
It would be better to replace the word "improvable" by the following more precise phrase: "Capable of being taught to gain, in part, their own living." Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z
It was at one time proposed to sell the Ross and Newmiln, but Mr Oliphant objected to this, as he considered these two farms the most improvable part of the estate. Chronicles of Strathearn
Meanwhile I will think of a name for them, and bring it to bear upon yours, if I think yours improvable. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856
And, if this be so, then memory must be very greatly improvable, since no mental power is susceptible of so much improvement as assimilative association. Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget
This only adds to the cumulative proofs that library classification cannot be made an exact science, but is in its nature indefinitely progressive and improvable. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
The living is valued at £140 a year, but perhaps it may be improvable. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record
These rocks and mountains are many of them no otherwise improvable than by planting, for which, however, they are exceedingly well adapted. A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779
Wherever possible, the training suitable for various improvable types of children should be arranged in connection with the ordinary public schools. Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health
I believe they were improvable to a good deal more. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
And, lastly, it is not improvable that some of Napoleon's marshals had accustomed themselves to dream of events such as occurred on the death of Alexander the Great. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
The main evils to which a scientific statesmanship should address itself arise from the incidental conditions under which this dividend is spent—conditions, largely improvable, which at present deprive it of its full purchasing power. A Critical Examination of Socialism
I should apprehend this bog to be among the most improvable in the country.  A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779
It would be a sort of Robinson Crusoe life, but with abundant materials for surrounding oneself with comforts, and improving the improvable among the natives. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi
Now, of these three necessary factors—first, his native gift; second, his technic; and, third, his character—only the second is improvable by taking thought. Inquiries and Opinions
Therefore, use your government interest for him, for he is improved and improvable. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals
That because men and society are improvable, error, ignorance, despotism, slavery, and superstition must be more prevalent in early times. Essays on Political Economy
I have a handsome and improvable estate, said I. I have no demands but those of reason upon me. The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
Bear constantly in mind that you are endlessly improvable. The Jericho Road
There is very great probability that any function whatsoever is improvable with practice, and in most cases to a very marked degree. How to Teach
And as those graces are improvable with every added year of life, which will impair the transitory ones of person, what a firm basis, infers she, has Mr. Hickman chosen to build his love upon!' Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9
He should inform himself what trades are declining, and what are improvable; when the advantage is on our side, and when on that of our rivals. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
"Adjectives ending in able signify capacity; as, comfortable, tenable, improvable." The Grammar of English Grammars
But to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing; to pass over the intermediate generalizations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another. Utilitarianism
The young woman was very improvable, and spoke the languages; and wouldn't have been known for the same country-person. David Copperfield
That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future. Walden
Through many ages, that immense multitude had been but obscurely presented to view in any such character as that of rational, improvable creatures. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
Courage is both a comparative and an improvable virtue. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
It is highly improvable that such an offer was ever made. Milton
The "little more of art" which was bestowed by the improving President Dunster left the psalms still improvable, as may be seen by opening at random at any page of the revised editions. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Only physiques of finest quality can endure, much more benefit by, a cold-water shock all the year round; and though physique is always improvable, great reformation must not be attempted rashly. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.
The cretin is the classic type of mental deficiency due to endocrine insufficiency, curable or improvable by the proper handling. The Glands Regulating Personality
My object will be to obtain a lease upon large acreage and poor land, but improvable with irrigation or drainage and an outlay of capital. On the Pampas
The one is like a young heir coming to a large improvable estate; the other like an old man whose chances are over, and his estate mortgaged for half its worth. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis
The last two paragraphs are not improvable by anybody's art; they are literary gold; and their very pauses and uncompleted sentences have in them an eloquence not reachable by any words. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories
So long as any of it remained, society continued to be an imperfect instrument of the struggle for existence and, consequently, was improvable by the selective influence of that struggle. Evolution and Ethics
Date of Lord Malmesbury's mention of it at Salisbury, we have none,—likeliest there might be various dates; a thing mentioned more than once, and not improvable by dating. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18
This, which was mentioned, I suppose, to show the improvable character of the land, would have given another some pain. Chronicles of the Canongate
The house and its surrounding piece of ground, improvable both, were purchased; he removed thither in June of this year 1843; and set about improvements and adjustments on a frank scale. Life of John Sterling
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