喜樂美語
  1. 1東方學家；東方學者（不是「東方人」）

    An orientalist is a person who studies the languages, history, and ways of life of countries that older European books called 'the Orient' — mainly West Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. In universities the word names a kind of scholar, especially from the 18th and 19th centuries, who learned Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and so on, and wrote about those places. Though actually, many people now treat Oriental as an old outsider's label for Asian people, and they prefer names like Asian studies. In serious talk, Orientalism can also mean a Western habit of painting 'the East' as mysterious, weak, or stuck in the past. So orientalist is a study-word with some dust and some argument on it. It does not mean 'a person from Asia'.

組成From oriental + -ist (a person who studies or does that).

同家族的字

  • orientalthe older adjective this word is built from
  • orientthe old name for 'the East' that oriental comes from
  • Orientalismthe study, or the Western picture, of 'the East'

原始詞典資料3 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。

orientalistadj/ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/

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    datedarchitectureartartsOf the West, to take in aspects of the East; pertaining to the representational tendency orientalism.

orientalistnoun/ˌɔɹiˈɛntəlɪst/

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    datedarchitectureartartsA scholar who studies the Orient; a person interested in the Orient.

    • 1684, George Bright, preface to The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D. Which is rendred somewhat more probable by that very learned Orientalist Dr. Pocok, who tells us the Arabick verb Hausch answering to the Hebrew חיש signifies three things, viz. to hast, to fear, to be ashamed.
    • If, however, Orientalists be right in their interpretation of the name of Artaxerxes' queen, Parisatis, as Pari-zadeh (Peri-born), the Peri must be coeval with the religion of Zoroaster.

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