| 释义 |
un-Aˈmerican, a.
[un-1 7.]
Not in consonance with American characteristics; contrary to the ideals and interests of the United States of America.
Hence un-Americanism.
1818M. Birkbeck Notes Amer. 28 Ninety marble capitals have been imported at vast cost from Italy,..and shew how un-American is the whole plan. 1893H. B. Fuller Cliff-Dwellers xviii. 242 Does it seem unreasonable that the State [sc. Illinois]..which has done most..to check alien excesses and un-American ideas, should also be the State to give the country the final blend of the American character and its ultimate metropolis? 1894Daily News 30 Apr. 5/3 However it came about, it is un-American and should be repudiated by the people. 1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 55 She refused on the ground that it was both unbecoming and un-American. 1917T. Roosevelt Let. 10 Jan. in Proc. Congr. Constructive Patriotism 172 Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. 1921N.E.D., Un-Americanism, un-American-looking. 1936F. R. Marvin (title) Fools gold: an exposé of un-American activities and political action in the United States. 1938N.Y. Times 27 May 2/2 The House..today passed a resolution providing for the appointment of a seven-man committee to investigate un-American propaganda in the United States. 1955C. L. Sewrey in Comprehensive Dissert. Index (1973) XXVIII. 116/3 The alleged ‘un-Americanism’ of the Church. 1958E. H. Clements Uncommon Cold iii. 97 Visas aren't handed out by Americans to anyone. They are averse to Communists, criminals, all un-American activities. 1960Guardian 26 Aug. 5/1 To question either now seems tantamount to un-Americanism. 1978Amer. Speech 1975 L. 315 The sin is neither as recent a matter of concern nor as diagnostic of un-Americanism as Dwight Bolinger implies. 1980in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 363 The Red scare was on, the witch hunt. The House Un-American Activities Committee came to town. |