单词 | conservatively |
释义 | conservativecon‧ser‧va‧tive1 /kənˈsɜːvətɪv $ -ɜːr-/ ●●○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorconventional► conventional Collocations conventional people, behaviour, and opinions are the type that most people in society think are normal and socially acceptable, although some people think they are boring and old-fashioned: · Rosemary led a quiet, conventional life until she went to college.· Her outrageous stage act is seen as a challenge to conventional morality.· Acupuncture may work, but I still believe in a more conventional approach to medicine. ► conformist thinking and behaving like everyone else, because you do not want to be different: · Your problem is that you are too conformist in your thinking.· Our children's creativity is being beaten down by the conformist educational system. ► straight informal conventional and often fairly boring: · Paul's quite nice but he's awfully straight.· I can't stand it when your friends come to visit - they're so straight. ► conservative a conservative person is fairly old-fashioned in their attitudes, beliefs, styles of clothes etc, and does not like change or new ideas. Old-fashioned attitudes, beliefs, styles etc can also be called conservative: · June's parents were very conservative and wouldn't allow her to date till she was 18.· middle-aged men in conservative business suits ► suburban especially British typical of the attitudes and way of life of people who are conventional and ordinary, and who disapprove of anyone who does not live or behave like them: · She hated her parents' suburban attitudes.· Despite her suburban clothes and appearance she was popular at college. ► traditional doing things in a way that have existed for a long time, and not interested in anything new or different: · Many traditional teachers still think of computers as useless toys.· His critics objected to the way he broke many of the traditional rules of art. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a traditional/conservative approach Phrases· This is different from the traditional approach to high school teaching. ► a conservative estimate (=deliberately low)· By conservative estimates, 2.5 million people die each year from smoking cigarettes. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► agenda· In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda.· You can't bring the country together and drive through the conservative agenda at the same time.· Bush won this election because, from the start, he went beyond the old conservative agenda.· I can help keep a conservative agenda in the House. ► commentator· Even very conservative commentators can regard the conditions within some prisons as morally intolerable to a civilized community.· But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often drew sharp criticism at home, especially from conservative commentators.· Phil Gramm of Texas at 5. 7 percent and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan at 3. 9 percent.· The tone then was set by conservative commentator and unsuccessful presidential contender Pat Buchanan, who forecast a cultural and religious war.· Gramm said he had to win Louisiana, but was trounced by conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan.· The conservative commentator visited South Carolina last week after his win in the New Hampshire primary. ► democrat· John Tanner, another conservative Democrat. ► estimate· Even this conservative estimate of problem loans amounts to a striking 8% of the total loans in banks' portfolios.· But on conservative estimates its size is likely to triple by 2025.· At a conservative estimate the water was nearly a yard deep, even near the edge.· Any differences that emerged could therefore be regarded as conservative estimates for the species as a whole.· Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile.· By conservative estimates, the agency has pared 2, 200 jobs in the past two years through attrition and early retirement.· All the data published on the effect of gill-nets on small cetaceans probably represents a conservative estimate of the number of deaths.· A conservative estimate is that 6 percent are homeless. ► forces· But conservative forces have begun to show signs of a slight retrenchment in their assaults on the president's agenda.· The initiative moved firmly back into the hands of more conservative forces within the government.· Far from being a new threat, evolutionism was something that the conservative forces had been battling with for several decades.· The conservative forces were successful at first. ► government· He says that he feels most workers would think that they have survived despite the conservative government, not because of it.· The belief in a less restrictive conservative government has foundation. ► group· That's the option favoured by the conservative group.· The Washington Legal Foundation, a conservative group, has challenged the program in Texas.· In the conservative group the overall incidence of stenosis will be very similar to that of the invasive group.· It has been claimed that criminals, sportsmen and senior government officials are the most conservative groups in every country. ► majority· Its conservative majority seemed to be moving steadily against the New Deal from 1935.· The ruling highlighted the strength of the conservative majority on the current Supreme Court.· It was alleged that there was an in-built conservative majority. ► opposition· The conservative opposition managed to prevent any real discussion of political change.· In the past three months, all major opinion polls have placed the conservative opposition ahead of the government.· The conservative opposition was composed of the privileged orders and institutions whose position had been challenged by liberal legislation.· Yet family-planning funds to Third World countries have been limited because of conservative opposition.· In the light of this document, conservative opposition to the constitution all but disappeared.· Mrs Cresson has already several times hinted that parliament may be dissolved if the conservative opposition tries to block government bills. ► party· You are a man of the left, yet you are in a government backed by a conservative party.· The leader of the conservative party, Lucas Alaman, was selected as president of the group.· Without him, the conservative party closed its ranks and remained in power.· I hope the people who have suffered from the recession will continue to support the conservative party.· There was a swing of almost 8 % against the conservative parties.· Now we are left with a choice of two conservative parties.· One Nation won only three seats compared with 11 at the previous election; but it took votes from the conservative parties. ► politician· The takeover of power by conservative politicians lasted only three days.· Some conservative politicians were inclined to agree.· Finally, and most significantly, he was not a military man, but a lawyer and former conservative politician.· Dozens of prominent conservative politicians and activists are working to generate memorials to honor the 90-year-old Reagan.· No, say conservative politicians and industrialists, who are campaigning to save the nuclear plants. ► position· Thomas also avoided taking avowedly conservative positions on controversial issues such as criminal justice and abortion.· Taken in its own terms, the conservative position is unanswerable.· We now think of an insistence on grammatical correctness as a conservative position. ► republican· John McCain, a conservative Republican from Arizona. ► state· Women very quickly got left out of the picture and it was a very conservative state that took over.· South Carolina proved why it is one of the three most conservative states in the union-along with Utah and Mississippi.· Desperate to win in the third most conservative state, Bush threw in his lot with the religious right.· Mary Landrieu, D-La., won her seat by 5, 788 votes, squeaking by conservative State Rep. ► view· He had terrifyingly conservative views on the ordination of women.· They use it to promote conservative views.· But on other prominent subjects, many more students are embracing staunchly conservative views.· But with his conservative views on welfare and other issues affecting women, he was hardly our ideal candidate.· The commission also said Brown is prone to inserting conservative views into opinions. ► vote· Her great threat to the Howard government is to split the conservative vote three ways.· The religious conservative vote is perhaps more influential in South Carolina than in any state. ► wing· In fact, some party stalwarts, particularly those from the religious conservative wing begged him to seek the nomination.· He recalled watching the Democrats rebuff their own conservative wing until they lost their majority. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► Conservative► a conservative estimate/guess 1not liking changes or new ideas: a very conservative attitude to education conservative views2Conservative belonging to or concerned with the Conservative Party in Britain: Conservative policies a Conservative MP3not very modern in style, taste etc SYN traditional: a dark conservative suit4a conservative estimate/guess a guess which is deliberately lower than what the real amount probably is: At a conservative estimate, the holiday will cost about £1,500.—conservatively adverb: a fortune conservatively estimated at 2 million dollars He was conservatively dressed in a dark business suit.
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