- 1政治宣傳、文宣（英語幾乎都帶負面意思；中文「宣傳」較中性，也可指廣告或推廣）
Propaganda is information that a government, a party, or some other group puts out to make people agree with them. It often tells only one side of the story, and sometimes it is simply false. In English today the word feels strongly negative — if you call a poster propaganda, you are not praising it. Though actually, it started in a church office: in 1622 the Pope set up a committee whose Latin name meant “for spreading the faith.” Propaganda there just meant spreading, like growing plants from cuttings. Only later, especially in the twentieth century, did the word pick up the dark political meaning. People also stretch it in ordinary fights: “That’s just advertising propaganda.” In Chinese, 宣傳 is much broader and often more neutral — a shop’s 宣傳 can just be publicity. English propaganda is harsher than that.
propaganda 指政府、政黨或其他團體放出的資訊，目的是讓人同意他們的想法。它常常只講一面之詞，有時甚至完全不實。在現代英語裡，這個字的負面意味很強，把一張海報叫做 propaganda，就不是在稱讚它。
這個字的來歷比較溫和。一六二二年，教宗設立了一個委員會，拉丁文名稱的意思是「為了傳播信仰」，那時的字義只是傳播，像把插枝拿去種植一樣。後來，特別是二十世紀，才有了政治上的黑暗意思。
人們在日常爭論裡也會拿來說，例如「That's just advertising propaganda.」。中文的「宣傳」範圍比較大，語氣也比較中性，店家的宣傳可能只是推廣；英文的「propaganda」則嚴厲得多。
From the word’s history
From New Latin, short for Congregātiō dē Prōpāgandā Fidē, a 1622 committee for propagating the faith.
來自拉丁文，原指1622年教會「傳播信仰」的委員會。
組成From New Latin propaganda, shortened from Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, a 1622 church committee “for propagating the faith.” The Latin verb prōpāgō means to propagate, to spread, originally like spreading a plant.
同家族的字
- propagatesame Latin root: to spread or multiply, like a plant or an idea
原始詞典資料4 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。
propagandanoun/ˌpɹɒpəˈɡændə/
- 1
Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
- Near-synonym: public diplomacy (sometimes asserted to be synonymous)
- Despite being biased and often untrue, propaganda material can be useful in OSINT analysis.
- 2
historicallifestylereligionAgitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
- 3
derogatorySuch communication specifically when it is biased, misleading, or provoking mainly emotional responses.
- They established a government propaganda commission, called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world.
- In this metropolis that had a prewar population of almost a million, but where the city center now feels like an Orwellian ghost town of propaganda posters and armed patrols, perhaps no one feels more alone than those who still harbor pro-Ukrainian sentiments.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- propagandum
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。