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单词 barbarism
释义 bar·ba·rism
\ˈbärbəˌrizəm, ˈbȧb-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French barbarisme, from Latin barbarismus, from Greek barbarismos, from barbaros foreign + -ismos -ism — more at barbarous
1.
 a. : a word or expression which in form or use offends against contemporary standards of acceptability in a language especially in the derivative construction of words
 b. : any idea, act, or performance that runs counter to prevailing standards of good taste or of what is intellectually or artistically sound or correct
  < 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. : a barbarian or barbarous social or intellectual condition
  < 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 practice or display of barbarian acts, attitudes, or ideas especially of barbarous cruelty or brutality
   < the reversion to barbarism in political trials and punishments — Alfred Cobban >
   < the barbarism with which the revolt was suppressed >
  (2) : a particular trait or characteristic of this condition
   < I had been taught that war was an outmoded barbarism — A.W.Turnbull >
 c. among some anthropologists : a stage of cultural development between savagery and civilization characterized by a primitive agricultural and pastoral economy but lacking a written language
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