pragmatic
pragmatic 英 [prægˈmætɪk] 美 [præɡˈmætɪk]
adj. 务实的；实用主义的
名词复数:pragmatics
- To describe a person or a solution that takes a realistic approach, consider the adjective pragmatic. The four-year-old who wants a unicorn for her birthday isn't being very pragmatic.
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- adj. 务实的；实用主义的
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1. a pragmatic approach to management problems
对管理问题采取的务实做法
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2. We need to adopt a more pragmatic approach.
我们需要采用一种更为实际的方法。
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3. I am a dreamer, but I'm also extremely pragmatic.
我是一个梦想家，但我也非常务实。
- pragmatic (adj.) 1610s, "meddlesome, impertinently busy," short for earlier pragmatical, or else from Middle French pragmatique (15c.), from Latin pragmaticus "skilled in business or law," from Greek pragmatikos "fit for business, active, business-like; systematic," from pragma (genitive pragmatos) "a deed, act; that which has been done; a thing, matter, affair," especially an important one; also a euphemism for something bad or disgraceful; in plural, "circumstances, affairs" (public or private), often in a bad sense, "trouble," literally "a thing done," from stem of prassein/prattein "to do, act, perform" (see practical). Meaning "matter-of-fact" is from 1853. In some later senses from German pragmatisch.
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