Condition

(noun.) the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition.

(noun.) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else.

(noun.) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; 'the contract set out the conditions of the lease'; 'the terms of the treaty were generous'.

(noun.) a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; 'the human condition'.

(noun.) a state at a particular time; 'a condition (or state) of disrepair'; 'the current status of the arms negotiations'.

(noun.) an illness, disease, or other medical problem; 'a heart condition'; 'a skin condition'.

(noun.) the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape').

(verb.) apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; 'I condition my hair after washing it'.

(verb.) put into a better state; 'he conditions old cars'.

(verb.) establish a conditioned response.

校对:卢埃林

• The condition of India at this time was one very interesting and attractive to European adventurers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• But it will be still more difficult to fulfil the second condition, requisite to justify this system. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The telegraph operating-room was in a deplorable condition. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Humphrey expressed his sorrow at Clym's condition, and added, Now, if yours was low-class work like mine, you could go on with it just the same. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Doctor, your clients are people of condition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Art thou in condition to do good service, friar, said Locksley, or does the brown bowl still run in thy head? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It ended in my moving into the house next Lady-day, and starting in practice on very much the same conditions as he had suggested. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• By the aid of these lines the barometric conditions over a large area can be studied. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This, rising above the water, and provided with reflecting lenses, enabled the steersman to discover the surface conditions and see any near vessel or other object. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• These conditions, stated in an orderly sequence, would constitute the method or way or manner of its growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Sherman paid no attention at all to the overture, but pushed forward and took the town without making any conditions whatever with its citizens. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• But it means its continuation under conditions where it has much less justification for existence. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Undoubtedly the change was mainly a product of contemporary conditions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He's a ill-conditioned, wicious, bad-disposed porochial child that,' said Mr. Bumble angrily. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• An exceedingly ill-conditioned, levelling person. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• We are not to be put in bodily fear, and that ill-conditioned fellow shall be held to bail again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I was afterwards convinced (and so was Ada) that from the ill-conditioned eldest child, these words extorted a sharp yell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Your doctrine, in short, depends on your purpose: a theory by itself is neither moral nor immoral, its value is conditioned by the purpose it serves. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He only conditioned that the marriage should not take place before his return, which he was again looking eagerly forward to. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• In the second place, he opposed the prevalent feeling, because with many capacities of being otherwise, he was an ill-conditioned man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In this state Frank Churchill had found her, she trembling and conditioning, they loud and insolent. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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