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单词 apologist
释义
apologist
noun[C]
formal
uk
/əˈpɒl.ə.dʒɪst/us
/əˈpɑː.lə.dʒɪst/
apersonwhosupportsaparticularbelieforpoliticalsystem,especiallyanunpopularone, andspeaksor writes indefenceof it:
（尤指不受欢迎的政治信仰或制度的）辩护者，辩解者
communismanditsapologists共产主义及其辩护者
There are few apologistsfortheoldsystem.很少有人为旧制度辩护。
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(Definition ofapologistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofapologist

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But, more important, he challenges political scientists critical of ethnicity, as well as apologists, to re-examine their bias against it.
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The apologists literally had to write their way past their own liberal frameworks and metaphors.
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The evil counsellor in this period, as these texts suggest, is increasingly characterized as anapologistfor tyranny, often with his own imperial ambitions.
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As a result, these apologists turn to the rights of the individual as the fundamental political notion.
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This does indeed reflect a contemporary sensibility with which it is important that anapologistbe in tune.
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None of the three apologists attempted to explain away their eccentric exploits medically, even though this was a standard polemical ploy.
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However, there are two items of good news for the theisticapologist.
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If theistic arguments are logically invalid or lack cogency, their employment by theapologistmay prove more embarrassing than victorious.
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There is good news and bad news here for the theisticapologist.
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However, it would be a mistake to assume that this uncritical appeal to instrumental rationality is limited to apologists for the status quo.
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There is no reason why theapologistis forced to construe the presentation of theistic arguments as recommending such arguments to the unbeliever as the sole grounds for theistic belief.
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Concerns had been raised in the 1610 parliament that the politic mystification of the royal prerogative by apologists for absolutism was designed to undermine parliamentary privileges.
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Moreover, they have come to distrust the arrogant scientists and technologists who have helped to generate these risks, and the states and corporations who have employed scientists as risk apologists.
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Second, local apologists justified this development by hailing the market as the principal site for the cultivation of civic and moral virtues.
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Afghan historians have tended to become strident apologists for their respective communities.
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