subject
英 ['s?bd?ekt; 's?bd??kt]
美[?s?bd?ekt]
- n. 主题；科目；[语] 主语；国民
- adj. 服从的；易患…的；受制于…的
- vt. 使…隶属；使屈从于…
英英释意
- 1. the subject matter of a conversation or discussion;
- "he didn't want to discuss that subject"
- "it was a very sensitive topic"
- "his letters were always on the theme of love"
- 2. some situation or event that is thought about;
- "he kept drifting off the topic"
- "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"
- "it is a matter for the police"
- 3. a branch of knowledge;
- "in what discipline is his doctorate?"
- "teachers should be well trained in their subject"
- "anthropology is the study of human beings"
- 4. something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation;
- "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject"
- 5. a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation;
- "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"
- "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities"
- 6. a person who owes allegiance to that nation;
- "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
- 7. (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated
- 8. (logic) the first term of a proposition