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释义 | critique1 nouncritique2 verb critiquecri‧tique1 /krɪˈtiːk/ ●○○ noun [countable, uncountable] Word OriginWORD ORIGINcritique1 ExamplesOrigin: 1600-1700 French, Greek kritike ‘critic's art’, from kritikos; ➔ CRITICEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto decide how good, bad etc someone or something is► judge Collocations to form an opinion about a person or situation, using your knowledge, experience, and intelligence: · The changes should be judged by their results.judge when/whether/what etc: · How do you judge when a house needs a new roof?· 2,000 foreign and local monitors were watching to judge whether the elections were free and fair.judge somebody/something to be something: · Women judged to be at high risk for breast cancer should be examined every year.judging from/by something (=when you form an opinion based on a particular fact): · Judging from Monday night's game, the team still has a lot of work to do.judge (that): · Some students may judge that the benefits they receive from further education are less than the costs of that education.judge it wise/proper/dangerous etc to do something formal: · Dwight judged it dangerous to navigate in darkness in these waters. ► assess to consider someone's work, ideas, or products, or to consider a situation or event, in order to judge how good they are, what standard they have reached, or how useful they might be to you: · This test provides an excellent way of assessing students' progress.· He has written a guidebook that assesses the quality of Californian hotels.· The booklet aims to help parents assess recent educational changes.assess how/whether/what etc: · The committee will continue to assess how we can improve. ► evaluate to carefully consider how useful or valuable an activity, plan, or suggestion is, especially in order to decide whether or not to start doing it or continue doing it: · There was not enough time to evaluate the information before the meeting.· The new drug is being evaluated in clinical trials.· The police force should not evaluate officers' performance in terms of the number of arrests they make. ► critique an article, book, speech etc that carefully examines a subject and says what is good or bad about it: · The speech was a devastating critique of Reagan's economic policy.· Marx's critique of capitalism in the 19th century WORD SETS► Literatureacrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► radical a detailed explanation of the problems of something such as a set of political ideas → evaluationcritique of a major new critique of his work a critique of modern economic theory· Several faculty whose work embodied a radical critique of culture were dismissive of the work we did. ► social· Furthermore, the Report contains a full historic, economic and social critique of consumer credit and proposed a new legal framework.· Certainly, positivism did also produce social determinist critiques of the existing order.· I'd like to see Opie's work as social critique, but I think he likes things this way.· This kind of social critique was a new departure.· This discursive attack is paralleled by a scathing social critique. VERB► develop· It was the language of purity which mobilized many women to develop a trenchant critique of male sexuality.· Manne develops his critique of enforcement further. ► offer· We conclude, therefore, that the radical perspective on the labour process offers a far-reaching critique of conventional organisation theory.· Jeffery J.. Carlson, a Santa Monica defense lawyer offered a similar critique.· Hayek's theory therefore offers both a critique of contemporary arrangements and a programme for realizing an alternative vision.· Last fall, Republicans offered an incoherent critique.· Merrick offered a revealing critique of Stephen Sondheim's high-concept Follies, a musical about ageing showgirls in midlife crisis. ► provide· They can bounce ideas off one another and provide a mutual critique or one another's work.· There is not the space here to provide a thorough critique of positivistic methods. ► write· His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla. critique1 nouncritique2 verb critiquecritique2 verb [transitive] formal Verb TableVERB TABLE critique
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES to say how good or bad a book, play, painting, or set of ideas is → evaluate: He offered to critique our plans.
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