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Describes someone whose interests, opinions, or knowledge are too narrow and limited — only caring about their own small local area or group, and unwilling to think about bigger, wider ideas. It comes from "parish" (a small local church area), but today it's used more generally, almost always as a criticism, like "a parochial view of the world".
地方本位的、視野狹隘的
組成From Latin "parochia", meaning a parish (a small local church district): parish + -al (adjective ending, "relating to").
同家族的字
- parishparochial comes from and relates to parish, a small local church area
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。
parochialadj/pəˈɹəʊkɪəl/
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Pertaining to a parish.
- The parish council handles parochial affairs. [civil context]
- The rector and vestry handle parochial affairs. [church context]
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derogatoryCharacterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
- The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel.
- Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
parochialnoun/pəˈɹəʊkɪəl/
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A parochial individual.
- If the vast majority of the citizens of our Southeast Asian countries are subjects rather than parochials, the question is: are they also participants?
- Australia is divided between cosmopolitans and parochials.
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。