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Sectarian describes strong, often division between different groups, especially religious or political groups (called 'sects'). 'Sectarian violence' means fighting between these groups because of their different beliefs. The word almost always sounds negative — it is not just 'belonging to a group,' but 'putting your own group first, against the others.'
派系的、宗派主義的（多指宗教或政治團體間的對立衝突）
組成'Sect' (a smaller group within a larger religion or movement) plus '-arian,' an ending meaning 'relating to' (as in 'vegetarian').
同家族的字
- vegetarianshares the ending '-arian,' meaning 'relating to'
- sectthe smaller group that 'sectarian' describes
原始詞典資料6 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。
sectarianadj/sɛkˈtɛəɹi.ən/
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Of, relating to, or partial to a sect.
- We were discussing solutions to the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shias.
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Dogmatic or partisan.
- The Hariri-Aoun agreement has shown that Hezbollah can bring the national political system to a halt. This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.
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Parochial or narrow-minded.
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Bigoted.
sectariannoun/sɛkˈtɛəɹi.ən/
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A member of a sect.
- An American sectarian, who has always lived within the high walls and in the close atmosphere of our intense sect-life here, and has always been accustomed to the dragonism of sect-authority and sect-jealousy, —is utterly amazed when for the first time he looks over his native sect-walls and comes to see the freedom of thought and utterance within the old churches of Europe.
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A bigot.
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。