Underlie

(verb.) be or form the base for.

(verb.) lie underneath.

编辑:波西亚

• The metal underlying the silver plate of the best plated teaspoons is of nickel silver, a trade name for a metal composed of nickel, copper and zinc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Muhammad's appeal, for example, was to the traditional chivalry and underlying monotheistic feelings of the intelligent Arabs of his time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The underlying phenomena were similar, the difference consisting largely in the arrangement of the circuits and apparatus. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Mo reover, the electrical theory of matter lends support to the hypothesis that there is a fundamental unitary element underlying all the so-called elements. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• However, he early began his collection of minerals and observed the relation of the soil and the vegetation to the underlying ro cks. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Look, here is a trifle of the red that underlay the gilt. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But consider the romance that underlay it! 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• America does not play with ideas; generous speculation is regarded as insincere, and shunned as if it might endanger the optimism which underlies success. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If called upon to name the most important of all factors of human existence, that which underlies and sustains all others, even to life itself, everyone must agree that it is _food_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• We look at the great picture and we admire the genius of the artist, but how rarely we realize the no less wonderful patience, the no less wonderful struggle that underlies what we see. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• One motive was the need of a measurement of time, the same motive as underlies the common interest in the calendar and almanac. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

校对:西尔玛