empirical: [16] Despite their formal resemblance, empirical and empire are completely unrelated. Empirical comes ultimately from the Greek adjective émpeiros ‘skilled or experienced in’, a compound formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and peira ‘a(chǎn)ttempt, trial’ (a relative of English expert, peril, pirate, and repertory). From this were derived successively the noun empeiría ‘experience’ and empeirikós, which English acquired via Latin empiricus. => expert, peril, pirate, repertory
empirical (adj.)
1560s, originally in medicine, "pertaining to or derived from experience or experiments," from empiric + -al (1). In a general sense of "guided by mere experience" from 1757. Related: Empirically (1640s as "by means of observation and experiment").
雙語例句
1. The empirical evidence considered here is subject to many qualifications.
此處提及的實(shí)驗證據(jù)有諸多限制條件。
來自柯林斯例句
2. We now have empirical evidence that the moon is covered with dust.
現(xiàn)在我們有實(shí)踐經(jīng)驗證明月球上布滿了灰塵.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Much of her work is speculative, based on psychoanalytic theory rather than empirical data.