Reactionary
[rɪ'ækʃ(ə)n(ə)rɪ] or [rɪ'ækʃənɛri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism.
(adj.) extremely conservative .
多琳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
(n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
阿曼德錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- True, he hated promiscuity even worse than marriage, and a liaison was only another kind of coupling, reactionary from the legal marriage. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- As early as 1680 Sir Isaac Newton proposed a steam carriage in which the propelling power was the reactionary discharge of a rearwardly directed jet of steam. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Constructive business has no end of reactionary moments----the most striking, perhaps, is when it buys up patents in order to suppress them. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Even the reactionary press speaks in a kindly way about these men. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- At first Tiberius Gracchus was a moderate reformer of a rather reactionary type. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Political discussion, whether reactionary or radical, is monotonously confined to very few issues. 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.
巴雷特校對