英语释义

• someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility

• having utility often to the exclusion of values;

  "plain utilitarian kitchenware"

• having a useful function;

  "utilitarian steel tables"

片语

utilitarian needs功利需要

utilitarian products实用品

utilitarian school功利主权学派英语

Utilitarian Justification经济观的判断

Neither Utilitarian既无功利

Utilitarian chic实用主义时髦

utilitarian solution效用解

Utilitarian Theories功利论

英汉例句

• the dichotomy between utilitarian and aesthetic, between artist and layman is broken down. (bill voyd, 「drop city,」 in theodore roszak, ed.

  功利与审美、艺术家和普通人之间的界限被瓦解。

• jeremy bentham's late 18th century utilitarian theory -- summed up as 「the greatest good for the greatest number」 -- is often used today under the name of 「cost-benefit analysis.」

  jeremybentham（杰瑞米·边沁）在18世纪后期提出的的功利主义理论-最大幸福理论-今天常被称为「成本效益分析」。

• 「humanity objectifies nature as a source of income, as a pure utilitarian relationship, 」 said mr. zhang.

  人类把大自然当作收益来源，当作一种纯粹的功利关系而将之客体化。

• another interesting work looked to me for all the world like a security device or a utilitarian part of the museum itself.

  另一件有趣的作品正注视着我因为全世界就像一个安全装置或者博物馆本身的功力部分。

• accordingly, mill distinguishes between ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ pleasures, to be taken into account in the utilitarian calculation.

  因此，穆勒主张在功利计算中对快乐的相对更多或更少进行区分。

• efficiency, therefore, can never serve as a utilitarian touchstone for law or for public policy.

  因此，效率绝不能作为法律或公共政策的功利主义标準。

• using a switch to divert the train toward one person instead of five increases activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—the place where cool, utilitarian choices are made.

  使用转辙器让火车沖向一个人，而避免沖向五个人，这会增加大脑的后侧前额叶皮层的活动——这个部分会作出冷静的、功利的选择。

• they found a strong link between utilitarian answers to moral dilemmas (push the fat guy off the bridge) and personalities that were psychopathic, machiavellian or tended to view life as meaningless.

  他们发现，给出功利主义答案（将胖子推下桥）的人和人格上呈现精神病态、权术主义倾向、觉得生命毫无意义的人之间有着很强的联系。

• they even look alike, despite david’s utilitarian haircut and ed’s swarthier, early-elvis complexion.

  （这是重要的选举势力范围，对此总理大卫卡梅伦深有感触）不考虑大卫功利性的发型以及埃德黝黑，早期埃尔维斯的肤色，他们甚至看起来很像。

• key questions remain -- will this growth make the site as utilitarian for all searches as google?

  关键问题仍然是─这些增长会不会使网站变得同google一样的搜索引擎一般功利？

• the utilitarian ethic has a strong intuitive appeal due to its simplicity, but it has nevertheless, particularly in mill’s exposition, come in for wide-ranging and sustained criticism.

  功利理论由于其简单而具有很强的直觉魅力，但在穆勒的阐释中，它却受到各方面的不断的批判和诟病。

• ritchie, oxman, roche, and their colleagues split deeply from the finite, permanent, and utilitarian tradition of architecture.

  里奇、奥克斯曼、罗氏和他们的同事们远离有限的、长久的、功利的建筑传统。

• the design language of these suvs epitomized the notion of purposefulness, even when comparing the utilitarian nature of the original land rover with its glitzy new cousin the lr3 discovery.

  即便用极具功利本质的原始版「路虎」和它的新表兄，炫目的lr3-discovery作对比，这些suv的设计语言还是集中体现了目的感。

• one of the classic techniques used to measure a person’s willingness to behave in a utilitarian way is known as trolleyology.

  「失控电车困境」是公认的经典方法，用来判断一个人是否乐意根据功利主义原则做决定。

• the utilitarian logic was simple: fewer people = fewer polluters.

  其功利性的逻辑非常简单：人越少，（大气）污染源就越少。

• the blindness of economic thought to the realities of the world is systematic and is a product of the utilitarian philosophy that has dominated economics for a century and a half.

  经济思想对真实世界的视而不见是根深蒂固的，这是主导经济学一个半世纪的功利主义哲学的产物。功利主义认为每个人的目的是相同的。

• with its utilitarian green carriages and electric locomotives, the train itself, unlike its illustrious predecessor, is also no beauty.

  列车的车厢是实用的绿皮车，用电气车头牵引，火车本身也不像它的前辈那样赏心悦目。

• the dichotomy between utilitarian and aesthetic, between artist and layman is broken down.

  功利与审美、艺术家和普通人之间的界限被瓦解。

• likewise, the scope of the hippocratic maxim, 「strive to help but above all, do no harm」 is far narrower than the utilitarian principle, 「everyone counts for one and no more than one.」

  同理，希波克拉底箴言「竭尽全力帮助，但最重要的是不能伤害」比功利主义原则「一人只算一份，没人可算两份」在范围上狭隘得多。

• even so, one needn’t necessarily be a liberal-arts graduate to regard as distinctly and speciously utilitarian the idea that higher education is, above all, a route to economic advancement.

  尽管如此，上大学不要念文科专业倒是一个共识，这也许可以被看做高等教育功利性赤裸裸的体现。教育是为了什么，这还是一个悬而未决的问题：培养批判性思危？

• the internet is delivering more and more useful, utilitarian options.

  互联网正带来越来越多有用的，功利的选择。

• from a utilitarian point of view, the obvious choice is to pull the lever, saving five and only killing one.

  从一个功利主义者的观点来看，明显应去拉拉桿，只杀死一个人来拯救五个人。

• but, because of the fast pace of life nowadays, we are bit more utilitarian or money-oriented. by my friendly reminder, money is just one of the means, not the purpose.

  不过，因为当今快节奏的生活方式，很多情况下我们更功利一些――我指的是‘钱’，不过我得友情提醒一下，钱只是手段，而不是目的！

• the end of the servers-networking truce was inevitable as servers became more utilitarian and networking gear got faster and smarter.

  因为服务器正变得越来越功利主义，而网络产品则更快更智能化了,服务器与网络停火协议的终结不可避免。

相似词

practical实际的；实用性的

utility实用的；通用的；有多种用途的