| 单词 | barbarism |
| 释义 | barbarism noun[U] uk/ˈbɑː.bə.rɪ.zəm/us/ˈbɑːr.bɚ.ɪ.zəm/extremelycruelandunpleasantbehaviour: 野蛮行径；暴虐行径；粗俗行为Hewitnessedsomeappallingactsof barbarism during thewar.他亲眼目睹了战争期间发生的一些骇人听闻的野蛮行为。 Synonyms barbarity brutality savagery Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
Examplesofbarbarismbarbarism A good writer, or speaker, knows abarbarismwhen he sees one, and realises that not all of them are malignant. From theCambridge English Corpus In its more extreme versions it carried racial implications by counterposing civilization (positive) withbarbarism(negative). From theCambridge English Corpus Barbarismis made and remade - by popular culture no less than by governments - and it can be unmade. From theCambridge English Corpus By exalting strife, contention, and bitterness, the tendency of militarism was toward regression andbarbarism. From theCambridge English Corpus Imperial contact between developmentally distinct cultures promises to accelerate "advancement" of the colonized frombarbarismto civilization. From theCambridge English Corpus As it had been in the past, the possession of certain objects was the indication of each individual's identity in terms of civilisation andbarbarism. From theCambridge English Corpus The circle that mankind must tread, is sufficiently limited and, despite the great standstill thatbarbarismeffected, has more than once completed its course. From theCambridge English Corpus The works reviewed cover concepts of civilization andbarbarism, order and progress which still pepper our modern political discourse. From theCambridge English Corpus Despite official complacency, disquiet about the ' methods ofbarbarism' employed in the 1950s as in the 1900s seeped into metropolitan debate. From theCambridge English Corpus Understood as markers of racialised human difference,barbarismand savagery meant that the (sub)human costs of this profit making enterprise could be dismissed. From theCambridge English Corpus It is difficult to say whether its five panels portray an epic of progress or of regress intobarbarism. From theCambridge English Corpus It is not true that nothing can resist thebarbarismof history. From theCambridge English Corpus That is where the essentialising starts and, in the process, the line between multiculturalism and the new racism (or newbarbarism) is often blurred. From theCambridge English Corpus He understood that true culture is always the best answer tobarbarism. From theCambridge English Corpus Both petitions are built around a rhetorical opposition between civilization andbarbarism. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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