Apologist
[ə'pɒlədʒɪst]
解释:
(noun.) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; 'an apologist for capital punishment'.
手打:罗谢尔--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.
录入:希莉娅
同义词及近义词:
n. Defender, vindicator, supporter, advocate.
校对:韦恩
例句:
- An apologist for dynamite told me once that society was divided into the weak and the strong, and there are people who draw a line between Philistia and Bohemia. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
整理:理查德