Reformer
[rɪ'fɔːmə] or [rɪ'fɔrmɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; 'a catalytic reformer'.
(noun.) a disputant who advocates reform.
胡安娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
(n.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
凯西整理
娱乐性解釋/意思:
One who, when he smells a rat, is eager to let the cat out of the bag.
赫克托整理
例句/造句/用法:
- At that point he had transcended the mind of the petty reformer completely. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The reformer might point to phrases like human welfare which appear in his writings. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- John Wesley, being a reformer and an agitator, had a place both in her own and her husband's favour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You cannot beat the bosses with the reformer's taboo. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For the tinkering reformer is frequently one of the worst of the routineers. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But through some of the prophecies there runs already a note like the note of what we call nowadays a social reformer. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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.
- Too passionate an absorption in public affairs is felt to be a somewhat shallow performance, and the reformer is patronized as a well-meaning but rather dull fellow. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Yet Miss Addams is a reformer, and sympathy without an explicit philosophy may lead to a distorted enthusiasm. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- One of Hartlib's chief hopes for the regeneration of England, if not of the whole world, rested on the teac hings of the educational reformer Comenius, a bishop of the Moravian Brethren. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The telling point in my opinion is this: that when a wise man, a student of human nature, and a reformer met in the same person, the taboo was abandoned. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In that spiritual autobiography of a searching mind, The New Machiavelli, Wells describes his progress from a reformer of concrete abuses to a revolutionist in method. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Many of the German princes, and especially the Elector of Saxony, sided with the reformer. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I might have been a saint, reformer, martyr,--but, alas! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We were reformers--revolutionists--Nihilists, you understand. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The reformers of science like Galileo, Descartes, and their successors, carried analogous methods into ascertaining the facts about nature. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- To the modern reformers, the situation was the other way around. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Our so-called representative system is unrepresentative in a deeper way than the reformers who talk about the money power imagine. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- What Remington missed was what so many reformers are beginning to miss--an underlying philosophical habit. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That does not disturb the interest in them very much, for by common consent reformers are to fix their minds upon the system. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That simple statement might be taken to heart by all the reformers and socialists who insist that the people are all right, that only institutions are wrong. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But what reformers have to learn is that men don't gamble just for the sake of violating the law. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- All educational reformers, as we have had occasion to remark, are given to attacking the passivity of traditional education. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Reformers must never forget that three legs are a Quixotic ideal; two good legs a genuine one. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Though not all of them would accept the name, these reformers are simply utopia-makers in action. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Such an exercise would, I fear, involve a considerable strain on what reformers call their moral sensibilities. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Reformers particularly resent the enlargement of political issues. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- So the reformers of California, the Lorimerites of Chicago, and the Barnes Republicans of Albany all use the name of Lincoln for their political associations. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
约翰校對