单词 | barbarism |
释义 | bar·ba·rism 1. a. b. < the barbarism seen on some of the Assyrian sculpture, where inscriptions were scrawled right across the work without regard to design — Edward Clodd > < the idea of … a unit of international exchange based upon an unchanging value in terms of gold is an economic barbarism — E.H.Collins > 2. a. < that peculiar taint of barbarism which makes men prefer occasional disobedience to systematic liberty — H.T.Buckle > : backwardness < drew the country out of its economic barbarism and illiteracy > b. (1) < the reversion to barbarism in political trials and punishments — Alfred Cobban > < the barbarism with which the revolt was suppressed > (2) < I had been taught that war was an outmoded barbarism — A.W.Turnbull > c. among some anthropologists |
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