喜樂美語
  1. 1改革者；改革家

    A reformer is someone who works to make a social or political system better — schools, prisons, land laws, voting — by changing the rules and the habits, not by throwing the whole system away. History books speak of prison reformers and education reformers; the Protestant Reformers of the 1500s are a famous, often capital-R group of this kind. Though actually, the word is rarely neutral. Friends of change use it as praise (“she is a real reformer”); people who like things as they are may use it with a raised , meaning this person will not leave the system alone. In some countries it can also mean a supporter of a party with Reform in its name, which is a narrower, party-label use.

From the word’s history

From reform + -er.

reform（改革）加 -er（做…的人）。

Wiktionary

組成reform + -er (a person who does that). In some places also Reform (the party name) + -er (a supporter of that party).

同家族的字

  • reforma reformer is a person who reforms a system
  • reformistsame political idea; reformist often names the stance, reformer the person

原始詞典資料8 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。

Reformernoun

  • 1

    historicalA member of the Reform movement in 19th-century Canada.

  • 2

    governmentpoliticsA member of the Reform Party of Canada, which existed from 1987 to 2000.

  • 3

    governmentpoliticsA member or supporter of Reform UK.

reformernoun

  • 1

    One who reforms, or who works for reform.

    • Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who criticised Francis’s papacy; and the moderate US cardinal Robert Prevost.
  • 2

    historicalChristianityOne who was involved in the Reformation.

    • […] for I long to ſee a larke without a creaſt, and would travaile farre to diſcoover a reformer without a fault, […]
  • 3

    A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases.

    • The fuel reformer works somewhat like catalytic converters in cars. In the gasoline reformer, vaporized gasoline is mixed with steam and air before traveling through a cylinder packed with the new Argonne catalyst. The result is a hydrogen-rich gas that is further processed in subsequent chemical steps and is then fed to the fuel cell.
  • 4

    chemistrygeographygeologyA device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically having low octane ratings, into high-octane liquid products called reformates.

    • Deisohexanizer bottoms are routed to the continuous reformer, where the octane of the stream is upgraded chiefly by conversion of naphthenes and paraffins to high octane aromatic compounds.

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