Excellence

(noun.) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree.

(noun.) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; 'a center of manufacturing excellence'; 'the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine'.

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• If she had had a daughter now, a grown young lady, to interest her, I think she would have had the only kind of excellence she wants. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Don't look forward to variety, but you'll have excellence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• And has not the soul an excellence also? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Children proverbially live in the present; that is not only a fact not to be evaded, but it is an excellence. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He performed in public, and carried the prize of excellence. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The excellence of his understanding and his principles can be concealed only by that shyness which too often keeps him silent. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Can virtue, approved excellence in any line, be learned, they asked? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He entrusted to her keeping the treasures of his soul, his aspirations after excellence, and his plans for the improvement of mankind. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The illusion was rendered more perfect by the excellence of the painting, and by the sensitive condition of the eye in the darkness of the surrounding chamber. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Will you commune less with his departed spirit, while you watch over and cultivate the rare excellence of his child? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And that to which an end is appointed has also an excellence? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Would you say that all men are equal in excellence, or is one man better than another? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• And has not the eye an excellence? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• His soul was sympathy, and dedicated to the worship of beauty and excellence. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• And the ear has an end and an excellence also? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You have all--nay, more than all--those qualities which I have ever regarded as the characteristic excellences of womanhood. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Suppose then, I said, that we determine how far they can unite this and the other excellences. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Of the many excellences which I perceive in the order of our State, there is none which upon reflection pleases me better than the rule about poetry. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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