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单词 shibboleth
释义
shibboleth
noun[C]
uk
/ˈʃɪb.əl.eθ/us
/ˈʃɪb.əl.eθ/
formal
abelieforcustomthat is not nowconsideredasimportantandcorrectas it was in the past:
过时的信仰；陈旧的习俗
They stillclingto many of theoldshibbolethsofeducation.他们仍然固守着许多过时的教育传统。
a word, phrase,custom, etc., onlyknownto aparticulargroupofpeople, that you can use toproveto them that you are arealmemberof thatgroup
（特定人群的）特有用语（习俗等）
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(Definition ofshibbolethfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofshibboleth

shibboleth
Is it not time, therefore, we forgot shibboleths and slogans and looked at the facts of this question.
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There is no place today for unthinking adherence to outworn shibboleths.
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The words "industrial democracy" have certain shibboleths attached to them.
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We should not too lightly adopt platitudinous shibboleths about any privileged class.
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We do not live by words like "arbitration" and see them as shibboleths.
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I also think that it is quite wrong to suggest that all the old shibboleths of the 1940s and 1950s should not he re-examined.
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The fact is that, one by one, the education shibboleths are being abandoned.
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I do not believe in these worn-out shibboleths of public ownership.
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He is steeped, as he has shown us once more this afternoon, in his ancient shibboleths.
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We are accused of uttering musty old shibboleths.
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We are far too concerned to repeat the old shibboleths of the past without trying to face the vexing and intractable problems of the present.
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We struggle along with a lot of stereotypes and shibboleths.
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What is national defence stripped of all its shibboleths?
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There are new shibboleths; new, false doctrines going about; and we have to bow the knee to them.
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One is that we might abandon some of the shibboleths which have become established.
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