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Doctrinaire describes a person — or a way of thinking — that is sure its beliefs are right and will not change them, even when the facts get messy. It is not a kind word. You use it when someone treats a doctrine (a set of ideas they hold like a rulebook) as more real than the world in front of them. A doctrinaire teacher may keep a method after it has clearly failed; a doctrinaire politician may refuse a useful compromise because it is not 'pure'. It can also name the person: a doctrinaire. The word is formal, a little old-fashioned, and slightly sharp. Younger speakers might just say stubborn, or say someone is stuck in an ideology. Though actually, stubborn can be about anything — bedtime, food, a sports team. Doctrinaire is stubborn about ideas. You will meet it in newspapers and essays more than in chat.
死守教條的、教條主義的
原始詞典資料3 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。
doctrinairenoun/ˌdɒk.tɹɪˈnɛə̯/
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A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
- And he is not above feeling grave and well-contained satisfaction wherever the socialist doctrinaire has been contradicted by men attempting to practise coöperation in the midst of the competitive system, as in Belgium.
- Or, shall we play the doctrinaire, and hint that at thirty-four the tides of life are calmer and cognizant of many sources instead of but one—as at four-and-twenty?
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historicalIn France, in 1815–30, a faction that advocated a constitution modeled on that of Britain.
doctrinaireadj/ˌdɒk.tɹɪˈnɛə̯/
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Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
- Mr. Chapman began to talk in a loud voice about the situation in the House of Commons. He guffawed at his adversaries. The word doctrinaire—word full of terror to the British mind—reappeared from time to time between his explosions.
- We have been long accustomed to consider growth as applied almost exclusively to size in its various aspects. But Nature, who has no doctrinaire ideas, may equally apply it to concentration.
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。