| 释义 |
deˈprogramme, v. Chiefly U.S.
Also U.S. deprogram.
[f. de- II. 1 + program, programme v.]
trans. To release from apparent brainwashing (esp. by a religious cult) by the systematic reindoctrination of conventional values. So deˈprogrammer, a person who carries out this process; deˈprogramming vbl. n.
1973Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 21 Jan. 4/4 Many American parents..feel so strongly about the cults..that they are resorting to kidnapping and brainwashing—which they call deprogramming—to bring their children home. Ibid. 4/7 One 23-year-old woman [screamed]..at the de-programmers that they were devils. 1973Newsweek 30 Aug. 52/3 His parents..tried to push him into a rented car and take him off to be ‘de-programed’. 1976Guardian 13 Sept. 6/1 Deprogramming is defined as a process of constant argument and preaching which sometimes persuades a Moon Person to defect. In the United States, it has sometimes involved violence. 1979M. Tripp Cruel Victim i. 17 In America..a young member of the Hare Krishna sect brought a prosecution against a man who tried to deprogramme him. 1981Times 1 Apr. 3/6 Some parents..told how they managed to..induce back their children, and ‘deprogramme’ them from the Moonie doctrine. 1983P. Kurth Anastasia (1985) iii. xiv. 418 A blustering, seemingly unbalanced former KGB agent who had defected to the West and, in the words of one CIA deprogrammer, ‘flipped his lid’. |