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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.
OpportunismOpportunism is when指的是 a person uses every chance一個人利用每一個機會 to get power, money, or an unfair edge去獲得權力、金錢，或不公平的優勢 and does not care much about what is right而且不太在乎什麼是對的 or about what they said yesterday也不在乎自己昨天說過什麼 We use the word我們用這個字 to show we do not like it表示我們不喜歡這種行為
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.
A politician who changes sides the moment it helps them一個一有好處就換邊站的政客 a shop that raises prices in a disaster一間在災難中漲價的商店 a friend who is kind only when it pays一個只在划算時才對你好的朋友 that is the flavour那就是這個字的味道
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.
There is a cooler use in science在科學上有一個比較中性的用法 where opportunistic can just mean taking whatever chance appearsopportunistic 可以只是指「有什麼機會就抓住」 (some animals eat whatever they find)（有些動物找到什麼就吃什麼） But opportunism as a word about people但用在人身上的 opportunism almost always tastes sour幾乎總是帶著酸味
It is not simply “being good at a chance”; it is grabbing the chance without a backbone.
It is not simply它不只是 "being good at spotting a chance"「很會看準機會」 it is它是 grabbing the chance without a backbone沒有原則地一把抓住機會
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，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。
opportunismnoun
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The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
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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).
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。