| 释义 |
defeatism|dɪˈfiːtɪz(ə)m|
[ad. F. défaitisme, f. défaite defeat n.: see -ism.]
Conduct tending to bring about acceptance of (the certainty of) defeat; a disposition to accept defeat.
1918Observer 9 June 6/4 Irish Nationalists will henceforth support Pacifism, and that means defeatism. 1922Daily Mail 13 Nov. 10 At an order from the leaders, the Labour Press has broken into a campaign of defeatism, lamenting that organised capital is still too strong to admit of any possible chance of the levy becoming law this time. 1926C. L. Graves Hubert Parry II. 79 He was as far removed from foolish optimism as from ‘defeatism’. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song 124 To acknowledge the limitations of human nature was a sort of defeatism. 1942G. Hackforth-Jones One-One-One vi. 65 Defeatism..must be guarded against; it was as dangerous an attitude of mind as the twin-headed monsters of Complacency and Wishful Thinking. |