Conservative
[kən'sɜːvətɪv] or [kən'sɝvətɪv]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas.
(noun.) a member of a Conservative Party.
(adj.) resistant to change .
(adj.) having social or political views favoring conservatism .
伊诺克校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
(a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
(n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
(n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
(n.) A member of the Conservative party.
錄入:基思
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Opposed to change.
海勒姆手打
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Undestroyed, unsuppressed, stationary, unrepealed
ANT:Changed, newfangled, radical, progressive, modifiable, alterable, transitional
編輯:罗赞娜
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
整理:梅纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- But it was no longer all-powerful, because its nature made it conservative and inadaptable. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She would marry him, he would go into Parliament in the Conservative interest, he would clear up the great muddle of labour and industry. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The world has grown older, and is therefore more conservative. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It is democratic machinery with an educated citizenship behind it that embodies all the fears of the conservative and the hopes of the radical. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- They knew their rivals were unscrupulous, and were in fact already trying their best to prejudice the minds of the more conservative Georgia cotton-growers against them. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It is fascinating to watch this kind of conservative in action. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The conservative who loves his routine is in nine cases out of ten a creature too lazy to change its habits. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This is a difficulty which is common to conservative and radical, and if I have used three living men to illustrate the problem it is only because they seem to illuminate it. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The average American family eats meat three times a day, while the average family of the more conservative and older countries rarely eats meat more than once a day. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- They are said to be conservative. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Education has always been a considerable nuisance to the conservative intellect. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- No routine has ever done that in spite of the conservative patter about human nature; mechanical politics has usually begun by ignoring and ended by violating the nature of men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But the beneficiaries of privilege, the Bourbon reactionaries, the short-sighted ultra-conservatives, turned down Turgot; and then found that instead of him they had obtained Robespierre. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For they were the conservatives of their day: between '76 and '89 they had gone the usual way of opportunist radicals. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The ballot is at the utmost a beginning, as far-sighted conservatives have guessed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Cato the Censor (who died in 149 B.C)and other conservatives tried in vain to resist the invasion of Greek science, philosophy, and refinement. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I know of one reformer who devotes a good deal of his time to intimate talks with powerful conservatives. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The class of routineers is larger than the conservatives. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Their perceptions are more critical than the ordinary conservatives'. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Evidently travel by coach had not been as popular in reality as the conservatives had ardently maintained. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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