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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
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[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.
  • The new edition of the dictionary carries 7000 additions to the language, which purists say is under threat.

    该词典的新版为该语言新增了7,000个词条,纯粹主义者们称该语言正面临威胁。

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[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]
  • Britain wanted a 'more purist' approach.

    英国希望采用一种“更为正统”的方法。

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