| 单词 | ponderable |
| 例句 | “Imponderables are ponderable, but answerable, no. Ask a philosopher, but be cautious. If you hear, ‘Eureka!,’ if you think, ‘His answer has captured my question!,’ then here is proof he is a counterfeit. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z More readily ponderable is a lovely shot, made in Israel, of Bedouin olive pickers asleep under blankets on rugged ground at dawn, with the long, low expanse of a prison in the background. Garry Winogrand and Jeff Wall: Photography in Two Phases 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “It dates back to the time in which one thought that the ‘ponderable bodies’ are the only physically real entities,” he later wrote to the British cosmologist Felix Pirani. A Century Ago, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Changed Everything 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z How are they even ponderable when valuing health care for one’s self or one’s family? The health insurance shell game 2013-06-17T14:15:00.140Z The atmosphere was as agreeably light as if ponderable clouds had suddenly rolled out of the room. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Could we but do away with all ponderable matter in the line of sight of the telescope, it would reveal to us undreamt of marvels. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z The ponderable universe of material things has impressive majesty. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z This theory has the great recommendation that it offers a means of abolishing the perplexing dualism of ether and ponderable matter, and gives a definite and, in a sense, objective meaning to the word electricity. Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy 2012-01-09T03:00:20.570Z But once get beyond ponderable matter,—once bring life and ether into play, and definitions become difficult indeed. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z But the effect it produced on me was tangible, ponderable; it tyrannized over my imagination and drove it into corridors of thought as sombre as that in reality before me. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Lady Marmaduke too was of outland strain, remaining for her conjugal baronet the most ponderable consequence of a tour in the United States. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The gale was dumb till it met and was torn in our harsh opposition, shouting and moaning then 39 in anger and torment as we steadily pressed our iron into its ponderable body. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z At this stage it may be explained that the electrons or atoms of electricity can in some cases make their way freely between the atoms of ponderable matter. Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy 2012-01-09T03:00:20.570Z The interpenetration of the spiritual with the material environment leaves this ponderable planet unable to check or to hamper spiritual presence or operation. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z In my imagination Havana assumed a magic, a mythical, state—a vision that, I was certain, had no absolute ponderable existence. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z It seemed to press upon and crush him like something ponderable and tangible. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The electron isolated presents itself as electricity of the negative kind; and in combination with co-electrons and other electrons it forms the atoms of ponderable matter. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Such, for instance, would be the force of gravity in all ponderable matter; and hence the law of gravitation is regarded as all-pervading, universal, unexceptional. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Matter exists, perhaps, in many forms, but may be classified, as the ponderable matter of earth, known directly through the senses, and, as the imponderable matter which cannot be sensed directly by man. A Rational Theology As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2011-03-14T03:01:04.693Z It was, I supposed, to a certain extent unavoidable in an establishment whose hold on the ponderable present depended on threats and promises laid in the future. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z They are not easily ponderable and measurable—even less so than those of other disciplines. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The electrons or atoms of electricity can, in some cases, make their way, freely, between the atoms of ponderable matter. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z To explain why we find these energies constantly combined one with another, we only have to think of a mass without gravity or a ponderable body without mass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Newton regarded them as hard, ponderable particles, perfectly unalterable, and concluded that the difference between substances was due to different kinds of atoms. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli They shall not know, Not they, The exaltations that make endurable here on the Earth The ponderable curtain of flesh. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy We need not here discuss the question of the possible transformation of matter into ether, or of ether into ponderable matter. The Mechanism of Life Professor Haeckel has told us of two fundamental forms of substance,—ponderable matter and ether. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer Perhaps, when he knew surely who the man was, they would become sufficiently ponderable. The Guarded Heights A man of means, without immediate relatives, without ponderable cares, under their influence he felt rather free to do as he saw fit. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident They are neither English nor a drama; they have not that minimum of ponderable identity at which appreciation finds a starting-point. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. The body of a male is visible to the eyes, is mensurable and ponderable, is clearly marked in its specific organs. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists It seemed like some impious blasphemy that man should fashion this most monstrous and ponderable of all his creations into the likeness of a thing that could float upon the yielding waters. Titanic Such a consistent and effectual partnership couldn't help drawing its members closer out of admiration, out of joy in success, out of a ponderable dependence that each learned to place upon the other. The Guarded Heights I believe that if I throw my pen in the air it will come down again, because it is like other ponderable bodies. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The mythical catamount, the imaginary concert, the ponderable subsidy—two hundred and fifty, less ten per cent.—seemed to him natural and an unnatural world. The Paliser case All things are not colored, or ponderable, or even extended; but all things are numerable. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive But he does, for he begins by assuming infinite space filled to the farthest with matter ponderable and imponderable, and forthwith proceeds to weigh, measure, and divide the latter as though it were finite! The New Theology I can give you self-evident proof that here is a solid, ponderable body, which, nevertheless, you cannot see. A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales He was silent for still another ponderable space of time. The Prairie Mother The wind pours over us, an icy and ponderable flood, and is increasing. Old Junk It appears that man is really a little lower than the angels, by being material and ponderable and visible, but the general image may be the same. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner If the aether have a boundary, masses of ponderable matter might be conceived to exist beyond it, but they could emit no light. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 It seemed to press upon her so ponderably as almost to be tangible. The Highgrader How, e.g., does a stone embody or express His essence?—and yet, if it is not somehow a manifestation of Him, what is this cold, lifeless, ponderable substance we call a stone? Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive He should understand in it, particularly when it is impertinent, stupid and cruel, the ponderable weight of Life itself, reacting upon his search for a fresh conquest over it. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets A muscled body, with ponderable weight, it was moving toward us, padding on the rocks. Wandl the Invader The sources of this vibration are the ponderable masses of the universe. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Religion lost all its old contemplative and esoteric character, and became a frankly worldly enterprise, a thing of balance-sheets and ponderable profits, heavily capitalized and astutely manned. A Book of Prefaces The I. W. W. seeks for verities and for concrete, ponderable power. The Red Conspiracy The workingman’s discontent has been over-emphasized, for the reason that what he demands is material, ponderable, for sale, easy to see, and not far out of the reach of one’s hand. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View I felt nothing save the impact of a gentle push, something shoving with a ponderable force against me. Wandl the Invader It is a principle in physics that a ponderable body moves along the line of least resistance; but that principle does not seem to apply to the will of man. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club The American, save in moments of conscious and swiftly lamented deviltry, casts up all ponderable values, including even the values of beauty, in terms of right and wrong. A Book of Prefaces Accordingly ether has been invented by modern science as the substratum of the events which are spread through space and time beyond the reach of ordinary ponderable matter. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 In these queries he still clings to the idea of Encke, that the resistance is confined to the neighborhood of the sun and planets, like a ponderable fluid. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence The greater portion probably enters the state of solution and makes its way thence through the bodies of plants and animals again into the ponderable state. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography Yet, while science shows us that this last is true among ponderable bodies where friction occurs, it is not true among the finer particles of matter, where friction does not exist. The Breath of Life I have already shown that in what we term combustion not a particle of the ponderable matter is annihilated. Scientific American Supplement, No. 312, December 24, 1881 With the exception of one character—the devoted slave—the lightness of the dialogue, mildly cynical, was due not so much to its wit as to the absence of ponderable stuff. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-11 Such a medium could convey no mechanical force from the sun, and therefore the medium of space cannot be ponderable. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence Sir William Thompson thinks he has proved that a cubic mile of celestial ether may have as little as one billionth of a pound of ponderable matter. Among the Forces But can atomic energy be translated into the motion of ponderable bodies, or mass energy? The Breath of Life But here again, at the very zenith of a shout, was he frozen to silence by a vision—this time one too obviously of no ponderable fabric. The Seeker On the contrary, the ponderable and tangible realities of the immediate situation counselled neutrality. Germany, The Next Republic? In the case of the ethereal vortex of the earth, we must remember there are two different kinds of matter,—one ponderable, the other not ponderable; yet both subject to the same dynamical laws. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence He that studies ponderable bodies alone is not studying the universe, only its skeleton. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work A new world for the imagination is open—a world where the laws and necessities of ponderable bodies do not apply. The Breath of Life In his magic mind the unfathomable revealed its depths and the illimitable its boundaries; metaphysics took on the simplicity of the ponderable, and man himself occupied a new and more dignified place in the Cosmos. The Law and the Word The ponderable move of national interests would crush their squeaks. Children of the Market Place According to this view, some force keeps it there, yet it is not ponderable. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence There are forces outside military power more visible and ponderable than these. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 In the world of gross matter, or of ponderable bodies, perpetual motion is impossible because here it takes energy, or its equivalent, to beget energy. The Breath of Life Air is ponderable matter—as much so as lead—and equally requires force of some kind to set it or keep it in motion. Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 His gorge rose against it; he would have strangled it, had it been a ponderable thing within his power to destroy; but as time passed he began to know it was stronger than he. The Spinners In investigating the question now before us, we shall first take the case of an ethereal vortex without any reference to the ponderable bodies which it contains, considering the ether to possess only inertia. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence M. Boussinesq arrives at almost similar results, by attributing dispersion, on the other hand, to the partial dragging along of ponderable matter and to its action on the ether. The New Physics and Its Evolution Do we not rather have to think of them as identified with one another to an extent that has no parallel in the world of ponderable bodies? The Breath of Life Now my friends," I said, as Hammond and myself held the creature suspended over the bed, "I can give you self-evident proof that here is a solid, ponderable body, which, nevertheless, you cannot see. Famous Modern Ghost Stories We to whom hills are hills, and seas are seas, and stars are ponderable quantities, speak, write, and reason of them as of objects interesting in themselves. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series But we have no right to base our calculations on its resistance, by the analogies presented by ponderable or atomic matter. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence He further supposed that ponderable matter is acted on by elastic forces. The New Physics and Its Evolution The body is the ponderable, material, terrestrial thing, endowed with a shadow.... The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry The air of the place seemed to hold more oxygen; as if his own specific gravity had changed, his very tread seemed less ponderable. Widdershins A few more words are necessary to complete our knowledge of the wonderful interaction between ponderable molecules and the ether interfused among them. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 The morn renews its golden birth: Thou with the vanquished night dost fade; And leav'st the ponderable earth Less real than thy shade. The Poems of William Watson Perhaps, after we have weighed all that is ponderable, we can only determine which seems the better course of action. A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment It was not ponderable, nor measurable, nor was there an uniformity of testimony to be collected thereon. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 The colour did not come back to his face; it continued as bloodless as ever, but there was a ponderable light in his eyes, and his jaws became more and more firmly set. The Night Horseman In ponderable matter it acts as if its density were increased without a proportionate increase of elasticity; and this accounts for the diminished velocity of light in refracting bodies. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 The mason follows, and with his footing courses makes ponderable and permanent the lines of the engineer. Four-Dimensional Vistas Catching sight of him presently, she greeted him with a flash of her dark eye that made him writhe as though his heart had received a fillip from a ponderable missile. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage And does he not know that it changes its course whenever it passes from a vacuum into any ponderable medium or in the opposite direction? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 As a rule, they were stuffed with fear—and with a fear so strange and alien that it had no ponderable quality. Before Adam Aside from its special preoccupation, such independence in the face of ponderable threat, such accepted isolation, has a rare stability in a world treacherous with mental quicksands and evasions. Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship What is the relation of this light mobile cosmic ether to the heavy inert "mass," to the ponderable matter which we chemically investigate, and which we can only think of as constituted of atoms? Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science The researches of most well-informed physical philosophers go to prove that the conducting properties of bodies are augmented by cohesion, and that heat is conveyed profusely and energetically through all solid and ponderable substances. Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. An exception should be made of "Spiritual Mediums," who, being flesh and blood, are of course ponderable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 So taken, salt, sulphur, and mercury are equivalent to the combustive, the combustible, and the combust, under one or other of which all known bodies, or ponderable substances, may be classed and distinguished. Literary Remains, Volume 2 "I must ask you first to clear your mind," the Professor continued, "of all conception of ponderable magnitude." Frenzied Fiction The empirical proof of the existence of this original matter lying at the foundation of all ponderable material is perhaps only a question of time. Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science Yet I must first make a brave face, no doubt, and present in its native humility my scant but quite ponderable germ. The Awkward Age This must be so, if there is a mean density of the ponderable matter in universal space differing from zero. Sidelights on Relativity The shroud of loneliness and abandonment descending upon the Cedars became for them nearly ponderable. The Abandoned Room Thus: the corporeal ponderable hand and arm raised with no other known causative antecedent, but a thought, a pure act of an immaterial essentially invisible imponderable will, is a miracle for a reflecting mind. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. Indeed, the only ponderable opposition to the communists to-day comes from more radical parties—the left social revolutionaries and the anarchists. The Bullitt Mission to Russia Adj. weighty; weighing &c. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish†, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive. incumbent, superincumbent†. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time. Sidelights on Relativity For the first time he understood that loneliness can possess a ponderable quality. The Abandoned Room The ancient Hebrews certainly distinguished the principle or ground of life, understanding, and will from ponderable, visible, matter. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. What the ultimate punishment might be was a minor, though still ponderable consideration, since, where naval officers or agents were concerned, the law was singularly capricious. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore This picture of the fourfold transformation of matter calls for an inquiry into the transition between the third and fourth states, corresponding to the well-known transitions between the three ponderable states. Man or Matter When in the first half of the nineteenth century the far-reaching similarity was revealed which subsists between the properties of light and those of elastic waves in ponderable bodies, the ether hypothesis found fresh support. Sidelights on Relativity It is ponderable substance beyond all question, and held by that chain of physical connection which it was the glory of Newton to discover. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel In fact, those basses are the argument of the play; they must be granitic, ponderable and powerful. Chopin : the Man and His Music A thousand trifling circumstances, which taken apart are as worthless straws, when they are bound up together become a respectable truss, which is marketable, and ponderable. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn Science looks on heat simply as a condition of ponderable matter. Man or Matter She was undeniably spare, and ponderably light, and proveably tall; when people had wished to distinguish her from the other two Miss Archers they had always called her the willowy one. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Let me again summarize: I. Comets consist of a blazing nucleus and a mass of ponderable, separated matter, such as stones, gravel, clay-dust, and gas. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel Except where the waves lapped lazily the crags below, the vast expanse beyond seemed unbroken by ripple, heaving only in broad ponderable sheets, and rhythmically, as if still in sleep. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories It lingered for just a ponderable sunlit moment or him. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West At the same time, under the Contra-Levitatem maxim, it was impossible to conceive of substance except as ponderable substance. Man or Matter Without exception, the authoritative physicists of our time accept this plenum as a verity, and reason about it with something of the same confidence they manifest in speaking of "ponderable" matter or of, energy. A History of Science — Volume 3 Its force-relations with ponderable matter are not only universally and incessantly maintained, but they have that precisely quantitative character which implies an essential identity between the innermost natures of the two substances. The Unseen World and Other Essays To know the Correspondences which exist between the things visible and ponderable in the terrestrial world and the things invisible and imponderable in the spiritual world, is to hold heaven within our comprehension. Seraphita Light is ponderable by its heat, which, by penetrating bodies, increases their volume; and certainly electricity is only too tangible. Ursula Whereas formerly man's mind was pre-eminently occupied by the liberation of the imponderable element through combustion, it now turned entirely to what goes on in the ponderable realm. Man or Matter What this potentizing process shows is that, by repeated expansions in space, a substance can be carried beyond the ponderable conditions of matter into the realm of pure functional effect. Man or Matter For there is the well-known fact of the presence of phosphorus in conspicuous quantities in snow without a source being traceable in the atmosphere whence this substance can have originated in ponderable condition. Man or Matter The fact that the existence of this state of ponderable matter was quite unknown up to such a relatively recent date has been completely forgotten to-day. Man or Matter What may apply within limits to phosphorus is wholly valid for the trace-elements - namely, that they are playing their essential role while they are themselves about to assume ponderable form. Man or Matter Through this process matter is carried in the upward direction towards ever less ponderable conditions, and finally into the formless state of pure 'chaos'. Man or Matter In other words, where does nature show levity concentrated in a limited part of space - that is, in a condition characteristic of ponderable matter? Man or Matter Far from being an accumulation of ponderable matter in a state of extremely high temperature, as science supposes, the sun represents the very opposite of ponderability. Man or Matter Regarded thus, the three ponderable conditions form what Goethe would have called a 'spiritual ladder'. Man or Matter Her aim was to examine the behaviour of matter on the way to and beyond the boundary of its ponderable existence. Man or Matter Thus, in a regular rhythm, the air comes near the border of its ponderable existence. Man or Matter In the case of sulphur, the ponderable and imponderable entities appear to cling together; in the case of phosphorus, they seem to be anxious to part. Man or Matter In this figure the shaded part represents the imponderable, the black part the ponderable entity. Man or Matter What else could be concluded from the apparent unchangeability of weight throughout all the chemical happenings in nature than that the ponderable world-content was of eternal duration? Man or Matter |
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