N-COUNT 打破传统信仰(或习惯)者 If you describe someone as an iconoclast, you mean that they often criticize beliefs and things that are generally accepted by society.
Cage was an iconoclast. He refused to be bound by western musical traditions of harmony and structure. 凯奇是个反传统的人。他拒绝接受西方有关和声和结构的音乐传统的束缚。
According to Stephen Shapiro, you should be recruiting iconoclasts who don't fit the existing mold, including "people you don't like," because innovation depends on divergent points of view. 照斯蒂芬•夏皮罗的看法,公司应该聘请的是那些不那么循规蹈矩的人,他们跟现有的模式有点格格不入;还应聘请“自己不那么喜欢的人”,因为创新要靠不同的观点来激发。
And yet they were remarkably similar too: iconoclasts, of course, relentless, and often very tough on the people around them. 但两人又非常相似:他们当然都反对偶像崇拜,而且冷酷无情,对其身边的人往往非常地严苛。