Latent

(adj.) (pathology) not presently active; 'latent infection'; 'latent diabetes' .

(adj.) potentially existing but not presently evident or realized; 'a latent fingerprint'; 'latent talent' .

錄入:溫思羅普

• Watt had already done much more, for in trying to find how the engine might be made of greater service he had discovered at the outset the principle of the latent heat of steam. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• This hidden heat became known as latent heat. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• There were latent reserves of youth still left in Mr. Bruff. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• The appeal of her helplessness touched in him, as it always did, a latent chord of inclination. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• That is the latent heat which is set free to work when the steam coming in contact with the cold changes the vapor from its gaseous to a liquid state. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• He saw the latent sweep of her mind, which could easily (he thought) be led to embrace all the objects on which he had set his heart. 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• This is latent heat. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Still, in spite of this latent weakness of character, which always developed itself in time of trouble, he was a brave man, with plenty of pluck. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• Early Buddhism was certainly producing noble lives, and it is not only through reason that the latent response to nobility is aroused in our minds. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• These things were latent in the mind and conscience of Mecca and Medina; he did but call them forth. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• I had supposed that it must be latent in the people somewhere; but, I had never seen it break out, until I saw it in the dying boy. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
• Now he suddenly felt the latent ache, and realized that after all he had not come off unhurt. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• Development is conceived not as continuous growing, but as the unfolding of latent powers toward a definite goal. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• I know the latent power of Mr. Micawber. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• By a latent vein from Alcinous' line, her father hailing from Phaeacia's isle? 托馬斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• The silver particles held this image, but not visibly--it is a latent image, and it is the purpose of development to bring it out. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• Then he remembered the passionate generosity latent under that incurious calm. 伊迪絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• He met her eyes with the latent sweetness of his. 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• Yet her engaging face, being an open as well as a perceptive one, was not without her husband's latent smile. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Then all the latent Vashti in Margaret was roused, and she could hardly keep herself from expressing her feelings. 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• The heat, however, is only latent, or in other words of no use, until the temperature of the water is raised to 212°, and the vapor rises. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• This is the quantity of latent heat, which means simply hidden heat, in steam. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Now listen to me,' said the dying woman aloud, as if making a great effort to revive one latent spark of energy. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• He soon conquered my latent distaste; I endeavoured to watch him and Perdita, and to keep in mind every thing I had heard to his disadvantage. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• This shows that the latent heat of the two pounds of steam was sufficient to convert the ten pounds of freezing water into boiling water. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• This absorbed heat is called latent heat, and it plays an important part in artificial freezing. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• I have still a latent belief that she must have been Mrs. Crupp's daughter in disguise, we had such an awful time of it with Mary Anne. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• The plate is then exposed and the latent image developed by an aqueous solution of pyrogallic acid, or protosulphate of iron. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• Numerous attempts have been made to supersede steam as a motive power, with the view to avoid the loss of heat by its absorption in the steam in a latent state. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• Will saw that she was offended, but this only gave an additional impulse to the new irritation of his latent dislike towards Mr. Casaubon. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.

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