| 释义 |
mal·thu·sian·ism
\-ˌnizəm\ noun
(-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
: the doctrines of Malthus holding especially that population tends to increase at a faster rate than its means of subsistence and that widespread poverty and degradation of the lower classes inevitably result unless the population is preventively checked by moral restraint or positively checked especially by disease, famine, or war |