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A policy or practice where one country takes control over other countries or peoples, often by force, to expand its power, land, and resources. It's the system behind empires - like the British Empire controlling colonies around the world in the past. It's usually used critically, to describe unfair domination, not as a neutral word.
帝國主義
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。
imperialismnoun/ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/
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The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
- Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
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historicalThe process of which an empire is formed, maintained, or expanded.
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derogatoryAny undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority, particularly in regards to systems that benefit the Western world at the cost of the Global South.
- The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
- By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
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。