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Commercialism is when making money becomes the main point — more important than whether the thing is good, true, or kind. A festival that used to be about family fills up with ads. A sport that used to be about the game sells every empty space on a shirt. People say this word when they are unhappy about that. It is not a calm school-book word; it carries a little . Though actually, the same person may enjoy cheap, well-sold things and still complain about commercialism. The word points at the “money first” attitude, not at every shop.
商業掛帥、一切向錢看(帶批評;不是中性的「商業」)
組成commercial(商業的)+ -ism(一套做法或想法)。commercial 來自 commerce(買賣),from Latin commercium.
同家族的字
- commercialthe adjective “for business / for sale”; also a TV advertisement
- commercebuying and selling
- commerciallyin a business way
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
commercialismnoun
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The practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business.
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A tendency to value profit over everything else.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。