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单词 mentality
释义
mentality
noun[Cusually singular]
uk
/menˈtæl.ə.ti/us
/menˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
C1
a person'sparticularway ofthinkingabout things:
心态，心性，思想方法
I can'tunderstandthe mentality ofpeoplewhohurtanimals.我无法理解伤害动物的那些人究竟是什么心态。
HehopesthatcloserlinksbetweenBritainand therestofEuropewillchangethe British mentality towardsforeigners.他希望英国与其他欧洲国家更为密切的关系可以改变英国人对外国人的心态。
Synonym
mindset
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Mind and personality
  • (a) penny for your thoughtsidiom
  • allism
  • allistic
  • alter ego
  • ambivert
  • ASC
  • Asperger's syndrome
  • cognition
  • human nature
  • id
  • identify
  • identity
  • in the person ofsomeoneidiom
  • jib
  • noggin
  • non-identity
  • noodle
  • on the spectrumidiom
  • subconscious
  • vantage point
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(Definition ofmentalityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

mentality| American Dictionary

mentality
noun[U]
us
/menˈtæl·ɪ·t̬i/
a person’s or group’s way ofthinkingabout things:
Theybuyeverything oncredit– they have thisplaynow,paylatermentality.
(Definition ofmentalityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

mentality| Business English

mentality
noun[C,usually singular]
uk
/menˈtæləti/us
pluralmentalities
theparticularway that apersonorgroupthinksabout things:
We need to end this credit-card mentality andstartlivingwithinourmeans.
(Definition ofmentalityfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmentality

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What have to be examined are the social and psychological mechanisms leading to such changes of preference, disposition ormentality.
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These advances ushered in a new economicmentality.
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Second, although neither an authoritarian nor a sultanistic regime derives legitimacy and motivation from ideological sources, a "mentality" may drive an authoritarian regime's policies.
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It is amentalitythat provides fertile ground for conspiracy theories.
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Among the important features of the new system is a corporatementalityin which much of the "fat" of traditional medical education seems disposable.
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This drive represents a rediscovery of the sense of mastery over individual existence and after 1900 becomes the most profound unifier across nations and mentalities.
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Professional interests were linked to a set of mentalities that prevented medical men from seeing how religious belief might aid them in their clinical undertaking.
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This difference in bureaucratic structure andmentalitymay also have influenced differing attitudes toward borders.
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Thementalityof the gold standard proved resistant to change even under the most pressing economic circumstances.
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This relegates the social bandit to a world of beliefs and mentalities entirely separated from any ' physical ' history.
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By the middle of the nineteenth century a newmentalityprevailed.
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Ourmentalityis still too correct, our theatrical norm too laden with an aura of darkened mystification.
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A crucial feature of early modern mentalities was that such beliefs were commonly held at both the popular and the elite level.
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He explained the effect of crowd psychology on individualmentalityas the replacement of cerebral control by the dominance of the spinal cord.
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It consisted among other things of changes in values, lifestyles and mentalities.
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