- 1投機主義
Opportunism is when a person uses every chance to get power, money, or an unfair edge, and does not care much about what is right, or about what they said yesterday. We use the word to show we do not like it. A politician who changes sides the moment it helps them, a shop that raises prices in a disaster, a friend who is kind only when it pays — that is the flavour. There is a cooler use in science, where opportunistic can just mean taking whatever chance appears (some animals eat whatever they find). But opportunism as a word about people almost always tastes sour. It is not simply “being good at a chance”; it is grabbing the chance without a backbone.
組成From French opportunisme, equivalent to opportune + -ism (a way of thinking or a practice).
同家族的字
- opportunethe adjective this noun is built from: coming at a useful moment
- opportunityshares the same root for a favourable chance
- opportunisticthe adjective for this kind of behaviour
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
opportunismnoun
- 1
The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
- 2
The political line of Communist Party members who zealously support the Party, but whose trait is that they yield to the mood of the moment, they are unable to resist what is fashionable, leading to the sacrifice of the permanent and essential interests of the Party to the momentary and minor interests.
- Opportunism today, as represented by its principal spokesman, the ex-Marxist Karl Kautsky, fits in completely with Marx's characterization of the bourgeois position quoted above, for this opportunism limits recognition of the class struggle to the sphere of bourgeois relations. (Within this sphere, within its framework, not a single educated liberal will refuse to recognize the class struggle "in principle"!) Opportunism does not extend recognition of the class struggle to the cardinal point, to the period of transition from capitalism to communism, of the overthrow and the complete abolition of the bourgeoisie. In reality, this period inevitably is a period of an unprecedently violent class struggle in unprecedentedly acute forms, and, consequently, during this period the state must inevitably be a state that is democratic in a new way (for the proletariat and the propertyless in general) and dictatorial in a new way (against the bourgeoisie).
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