Materialism
[mə'tɪərɪəlɪz(ə)m] or [mə'tɪrɪəlɪzəm]
解释:
(noun.) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality.
(noun.) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters.
海因里希录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
(n.) The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
(n.) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
手打:卡尔
例句:
- Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- A new philosophical basis is becoming increasingly necessary to socialism--one that may not be truer than the old materialism but that shall simply be more useful. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Without war the world would stagnate and lose itself in materialism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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