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单词 propaganda
释义
propagandaprop‧a‧gan‧da /ˌprɒpəˈɡændə $ ˌprɑː-/ ●●○ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpropaganda
Origin:
1700-1800 Modern Latin Congregatio de propaganda fide ‘Congregation for propagating the faith’, Roman Catholic organization set up in 1622
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Propaganda is a tool of war.
  • a propaganda film
  • a piece of anti-Communist propaganda
  • In Najaf, Khomeini had begun a propaganda campaign against the Shah.
  • Neo-Nazi propaganda
  • Radio Marti is still there, spewing its US propaganda across the waters toward Cuba.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Anyway, there was always the suspicion that they were exaggerated by Stalin's propaganda machine.
  • Beginning in the 1970s, petrodollars financed the propaganda that encouraged submission and repudiated reflection.
  • But such propaganda may not be welcomed.
  • Coevolution can be seen as two parties snared in the web of mutual propaganda.
  • Externally, a range of print media is available for the insertion of company propaganda, should the occasion arise.
  • His name is known around the world-its prestige would be great propaganda against our enemies.
  • In other words, at these points, Dawkins depends on propaganda and rhetoric.
  • It was a lesson in propaganda he did not forget.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomething untrue that is said or written
something that you say which you know is not true: · Jim said that he was planning to stay home and watch TV, but I knew it was a lie.lie about: · How can the newspapers print all these lies about her?a pack of lies (=so many lies that you feel shocked or angry): · He called the report "a pack of lies".a bald-faced/an outright/a downright lie (=a clear and shocking lie): · Davenport said the congressman's allegations were nothing more than "downright lies".
a lie that does not harm anyone, especially one that is told in order to avoid hurting someone's feelings: · It's just a little white lie. No real harm done.· I told him his suit looked wonderful, which was a white lie.· "I'm sorry I couldn't come. I had a really bad headache," she explained, resorting to a white lie.
informal a lie, especially one that is not very important: · You're not telling me a fib, are you?fib about: · I had to make up some fib about why I was late.
formal an untrue statement or story, especially one that has been carefully and deliberately invented to give people the wrong idea about someone or something: · Mudge, in a written statement Wednesday, said the article was a collection of "falsehoods and misinformation".spread a falsehood: · Why Campbell had chosen to spread such a falsehood is a mystery.
a statement that is almost a lie because it does not tell the whole truth about something: · McCarthy's blend of half-truths and lies ruined many careers in government and the professions.· Forbes' book on Bonham is littered with half-truths, and, in some cases, outright lies.
incorrect information, especially information that is deliberately intended to deceive people: · According to Kramer, the Internet is a storehouse of lies and misinformation.misinformation about: · "For months, the Democrats have run television commercials filled with misinformation about the Republican Party," said Dawson.
false information which is given deliberately in order to hide the truth or confuse people, especially in political situations: · The Russian Foreign Ministry denounced the report as "disinformation".disinformation about: · Logan said government agents are still spreading disinformation about leaders of the political reform movement.
false or partly false information that is spread by a government or political organization, in order to make people support and agree with their political aims and beliefs: · Propaganda is a tool of war.Communist/US etc propaganda: · Radio Marti is still there, spewing its US propaganda across the waters toward Cuba.propaganda campaign (=an organized plan to spread propaganda): · In Najaf, Khomeini had begun a propaganda campaign against the Shah.anti-Western/anti-Communist/anti-Labour etc propaganda: · a piece of anti-Communist propaganda
when people tell lies about someone in the newspapers, on television etc, in order to make people have a bad opinion of that person: mount a smear campaign against somebody: · The Labour Party mounted a smear campaign against Livingstone before the election.
the use of film, newspapers etc to persuade people
the clever use of newspapers, film, television etc in order to persuade the public to accept particular political ideas, often by giving incomplete or false information: · I object when political propaganda is pushed through my letter box at election times.
when someone, especially a government, political party etc, gives information in a way that is intended to persuade people that they, their ideas, their plans etc are good: · What we would like to see is more realistic policies and less Labour Party spin.put a spin on something: · Whatever spin the government tries to put on it, this can be seen as nothing less than a massive defeat.· The senator was determined to put a positive spin on the affair.
WORD SETS
adversarial, adjectiveamnesty, nounanarchism, nounanarchist, nounanticlerical, adjectivearms control, nounbigot, nounbigoted, adjectivebigotry, nounbilateral, adjectiveBlimp, nouncarpetbagger, nouncaucus, nounchancellor, nouncoalition, nounconsensus, nounconstituency, nounconstitutionalism, nounconsumerism, nouncredo, noundemagogue, noundestabilize, verbdétente, noundisorder, noundissent, noundivine right, nounferment, nounfirebrand, noungerrymandering, nounheartland, nounhonours list, nouninterventionist, adjectiveisolationism, nounliberal, adjectiveliberal, nounliberalism, nounlobby, nounlobby, verbMaoism, nounnationalistic, adjective-ocracy, suffix-ocrat, suffixopinion-makers, nounopinion poll, nounpersonality cult, nounpetition, nounphoto opportunity, nounplacard, nounplatform, nounpolitical, adjectivepolitical asylum, nounpolitical geography, nounpolitical machine, nounpopulist, adjectivepork barrel, nounprivilege, nounpropaganda, nounrealpolitik, nounrevolution, nounsoapbox, nounsound bite, nounstump, verbsubversive, adjectivesubvert, verbwar of words, nounwheeler-dealer, nounwheeling and dealing, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + propaganda
· Don't believe all the political propaganda.
· He was charged with ‘distributing enemy propaganda’.
· Much communist propaganda was about the evils of capitalism.
· Public money should not be used to produce party propaganda.
· Everything would soon get better, according to the official propaganda.
verbs
· Several underground organizations were spreading anti-government propaganda.
phrases
· The claim was a typical piece of Russian propaganda.
propaganda + NOUN
· The Tories mounted a massive propaganda campaign against the Labour leader.
· He denied the existence of any political prisoners, dismissing the claims as part of a propaganda war.
(=something done as propaganda)· The meeting was just a propaganda exercise.
(=people who produce propaganda in an organized way)· The regime’s propaganda machine presented the incident as a triumph.
(=an event, situation etc that can be used for propaganda)· Sporting success was an important propaganda weapon during the Cold War.
(=an organization or type of communication that is used to spread propaganda)· The newspaper had been turned into a propaganda tool.
(=ability to be used for propaganda)· There was propaganda value in agreeing to a peace conference.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· We are the last nation to acknowledge the Communist propaganda of 47 years ago.· Its collection of Communist propaganda is now being dismantled.· He swallowed the Communist propaganda about Mihailovich being inactive and treating with the enemy.
· They've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda.· There was less interest in programmes on political subjects and an actual dislike of political propaganda programmes such as Nation and Humanism.· But to subject a patient to political propaganda within the context of a consulting-room discussion about treatment is both unprofessional and cruel.
· Their purpose was to affirm Soviet propaganda about the evils of capitalism.
NOUN
· In Najaf, Khomeini had begun a propaganda campaign against the Shah and his regime by circulating audio cassettes containing his pronouncements.· Than Tun stepped up the propaganda campaign to end military government.
· The coming of war in 1914 quickly gave new impetus to the hitherto rather limited and amateurish propaganda efforts of governments.· They offer little protection against heavily financed, one-sided campaigns and special-interest propaganda efforts.
· The representatives of the media should see the meeting as a constructive activity and not just a propaganda exercise.· They are part of the propaganda exercise of doubt itself.· Were all the sendings of messengers, offers and counter-offers, a propaganda exercise, a charade?· Franco was assisted in the orchestration of this propaganda exercise by a convenient coincidence of the calendar.
· Anyway, there was always the suspicion that they were exaggerated by Stalin's propaganda machine.· The chancery was used as a propaganda machine perhaps as never before.· Even Saddam's propaganda machine failed to bring that lie to life.· We have to find a way to utilise our fifty thousand members as an educational and propaganda machine.· The malai propaganda machine had always lied about the scale of casualties in our earlier Civil War.· But in recent weeks it has cranked an impressive propaganda machine into action.
· It is inconceivable that Edward would, for propaganda purposes, have falsely implicated one of his own household knights in treason.· The railway industry had a propaganda purpose in the streamlining of outlines and in the new doctrine of modernism in these years.· In some instances, I believe, spurious cases were cobbled together for propaganda purposes.
· But its propaganda value should not be allowed to deflect the urgent need for reform.· But the caution of other princes may not have blinded their followers to the possible propaganda value of the Laudes.· Such a confirmation was to be of great propaganda value to the papacy in addition to its immediate political and financial value.
· Even the mobile telephone has become a weapon in the propaganda war.· Mr Barak has not just lost his majority; he has lost the propaganda war, too.· Instead they were treated to a live on-air, across the networks propaganda war, with Al Gore firing the first salvos.· It was thus necessary to reanimate local antislavery societies, renew the propaganda war, and once more undertake large-scale petitioning.· We pride ourselves on having won the propaganda war.
VERB
· At the same same they are using propaganda and terror to boost their position in the countryside.· A place where there are no foreign journalists, no chance to use him for propaganda.· The chancery was used as a propaganda machine perhaps as never before.· In ways such as these coinage was used for contemporary propaganda.· And they are not above using some sharp contemporary propaganda.
 information which is false or which emphasizes just one part of a situation, used by a government or political group to make people agree with them:  the spreading of political propagandaNazi/Communist etc propagandapropaganda exercise/campaign (=something done to show one political opinion) They have mounted a propaganda campaign against Western governments. the government propaganda machine (=people who produce propaganda)—propagandize (also -ise British English) verb [intransitive, transitive]—propagandist noun [countable]COLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + propagandapolitical propaganda· Don't believe all the political propaganda.enemy propaganda· He was charged with ‘distributing enemy propaganda’.communist/Soviet etc propaganda· Much communist propaganda was about the evils of capitalism.party propaganda· Public money should not be used to produce party propaganda.government/official propaganda· Everything would soon get better, according to the official propaganda.verbsspread propaganda· Several underground organizations were spreading anti-government propaganda.phrasesa piece of propaganda· The claim was a typical piece of Russian propaganda.propaganda + NOUNa propaganda campaign· The Tories mounted a massive propaganda campaign against the Labour leader.a propaganda war· He denied the existence of any political prisoners, dismissing the claims as part of a propaganda war.a propaganda exercise (=something done as propaganda)· The meeting was just a propaganda exercise.a propaganda machine (=people who produce propaganda in an organized way)· The regime’s propaganda machine presented the incident as a triumph.a propaganda weapon (=an event, situation etc that can be used for propaganda)· Sporting success was an important propaganda weapon during the Cold War.a propaganda tool (=an organization or type of communication that is used to spread propaganda)· The newspaper had been turned into a propaganda tool.propaganda value (=ability to be used for propaganda)· There was propaganda value in agreeing to a peace conference.
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