| 单词 | master race |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaster race master race n. a race of people considered or claiming to be pre-eminent (for spec. use with reference to Nazi theories of racial supremacy cf. Herrenvolk n.). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > master race > [noun] master race1826 Herrenvolk1940 1826 Q. Rev. Mar. 503 A total and visible line of demarcation drawn by the hand of nature herself, between the master-race and the vassal. 1856 W. J. Grayson Hireling & Slave ii. 74 By slavery tamed, enlightened, and refined; Instructs him, from a master-race. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 141/2 In the Homeric poems..the Achaeans are the master race in Greece. 1940 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 1 149 Though many differing ethical values may be attached to the vague Nietzschean concept of the Superman, both the Nazi idea of the master-race and the Führerprinzip are among the most obvious and most congruous derivatives of that concept. 1960 C. Hooper Brief Authority 54 To look at you one would say that you were unimpeachably white, a member of the master race, though not the volk. 2013 Z. Leonardo Race Frameworks iii. 90 Life in the margins produces knowledge that neither the marginalized races nor the master race could have predicted or over which the master race could exercise complete control. < as lemmas |
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