Representative

(noun.) a person who represents others.

(adj.) being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives; 'representative government as defined by Abraham Lincoln is government of the people, by the people, for the people' .

(adj.) standing for something else; 'the bald eagle is representative of the United States' .

(adj.) serving to represent or typify; 'representative moviegoers'; 'a representative modern play' .

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• I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The more he suffers, the more averse he will be to me, having made me the principal representative of the great occasion of his suffering. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• For reasons worth analyzing later, these representative American citizens desired both the immediate taboo and an ultimate annihilation of vice. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were dangerous now only to their own side, and the papal representative spent an unpleasant night hiding from them in the forest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The engines and paddle wheels of the Adirondack are distinctly representative of the modern American side wheel steamer. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The States-General was far less representative of the whole body of citizens than was the English Parliament even in its Venetian days. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Vessels of the Monitor type still form useful parts of the United States Navy, in which the Monterey and Monadnock are its most representative types. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Your teacher shall be your representative. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The Columbia two-seated Dos-a-Dos (Fig. 188), Woods’ Victoria Hansom Cab, and the Riker Electric Delivery Wagon are representative types of the modern electric automobile. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The moment a man takes office he has no right to be the representative of one group alone. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Many thousands of these have been patented, but the Janney coupling, patented April 29, 1873, No. 138,405, is the most representative type. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Of the many patents granted for such machines the most representative ones are 243,287, 250,096, 267,014, 384,825, 450,624, 465,018, 480,256, 495,426, 489,484. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The quarrel between the representatives of the two interests is easily explicable historically. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Quite a number of the American representatives brought their wives. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Those senators and representatives are largely irrelevant; they are not concerned with realities. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As the sole remaining representatives of their decayed family, the persons of both were almost sacred in her eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• My son is one of the last representatives of two old families. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They stood the representatives of their races. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Now, all these were more or less ancestral to living forms, and all have brains relatively much smaller than their living representatives. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• According to Hegel, existing institutions are its effective actual representatives. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The representatives of New York could with justice drink the health of the young inventor, whose system is one of the greatest boons the city has ever had conferred upon it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• MUHLENBERG, _Speaker of the House of Representatives_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There stood the two children representatives of the two extremes of society. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But an _internal_ tax is forced from the people without their consent, if not laid by their own representatives. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The representatives of the Barnacle Chorus dropped in next, and Mr Merdle's physician dropped in next. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The German Diet was like the States-General or like a parliament without the presence of elected representatives. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There were no newspapers,[242] and there was practically no use of elected representatives in the popular assemblies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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