| 英语单词 | purist |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['pjʊərɪst] 美 ['pjʊrɪst] |
| 中文释义 | n.纯粹主义者;纯化论者 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Purists were shocked by the changes made to the text of the play. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 抱有纯粹主义观点的人对该剧语言中的更改感到震惊。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A purist is a person who insists on following certain rules exactly — to the letter. If you're a language purist, it upsets you to hear someone using bad grammar. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Most purists are fans of tradition and traditional rules, always sticking to those rules themselves and often instructing other people to do the same. To be a purist is to be a kind of perfectionist — a baking purist might feel that cookies made without a certain brand of chocolate chips are vastly inferior, for example. The noun purist originally referred specifically to language use, and it comes from the Latin purus, "clean, clear, or unmixed." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]纯粹主义者;正统主义者 A purist is a person who wants something to be totally correct or unchanged, especially something they know a lot about.
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]纯粹主义者的;正统主义者的 Purist attitudes are the kind of attitudes that purists have. [usu ADJ n]
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