provincialism
英 [pr?'v?n?(?)l?z(?)m]
美[pr?'v?n??'l?z?m]
- n. 方言；地方風格；鄉下習氣
TOEFL
中文詞源
provincialism 排外主義，狹隘主義
來自provincial,地方的，排外的，-ism,主義，思想。
英文詞源
- provincialism (n.)
- 1820 in the political sense, "local attachment as opposed to national unity," from provincial + -ism. Meaning "manners or modes of a certain province or of provinces generally" (as opposed to the big city or capital) is from 1836. Sense of "a local word or usage or expression" is from 1770.
PROVINCIALISM consists in:
(a) An ignorance of the manners, customs and nature of people living outside one's own village, parish, or nation.
(b) A desire to coerce others into uniformity.
[Ezra Pound, "Provincialism the Enemy," 1917]
雙語例句
- 1. He wanted to escape from the provincialism of the small university where he taught.
- 他所執教是一所規模很小的大學,他想擺脫存在于其中的地方主義桎梏.
來自辭典例句
- 2. A . Quebec's resistance to a national agency is provincialism ideology.
- 魁北克對全國性機構的抵制是偏狹的思維方式.
來自互聯網
- 3. Three cups of Qinghuawu liquor conveys provincialism of all the life.
- 三杯清華婺一世家鄉情.
來自互聯網
- 4. There are two theoretical tendencies of this philosophy provincialism and autonomism.
- 國外生命科學哲學研究有兩種主要的理論傾向,一是分支論,一是自主論.
來自互聯網
- 5. But provincialism in educational research is, alas, nothing new.
- 只不過教育研究中的地方主義也實在是屢見不鮮了吧!
來自互聯網