luddites
英 [ˈlʌdaɪts]
美 [ˈlʌˌdaɪts]
n. 反对新技术(或新工作方法)的人
Luddite的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT （尤指反对使用新的机器和方法的）反对技术进步者
If you refer to someone as a Luddite, you are criticizing them for opposing changes in industrial methods, especially the introduction of new machines and modern methods.- The majority have a built-in Luddite mentality; they are resistant to change.
大部分人天生有种反对技术进步的心理。他们抗拒变革。
- The majority have a built-in Luddite mentality; they are resistant to change.
双语例句
- These latter-day Luddites are also wrong.
这些当代的卢德派也错了。 - If technology permits those things to be produced more efficiently, Luddites argue, there will be less work to do.
卢德派认为，如果技术使得这些东西能够以更高的效率生产出来，那么需要人们做的工作就会减少。 - Although fears that technology will displace jobs are at least as old as the Luddites, there are signs that this time may really be different.
尽管对于科技可能取代就业岗位的担忧，至少和勒徳分子（Luddites）的出现一样久远，但是如今的一些迹象显示，这一次可能真的与以往不同。 - Workers have always worried that new technologies will take away their livelihoods, ever since the original Luddites 'fears about mechanised looms.
劳动者们总是担心新技术会带走他们的生计，从最初唯恐失业而反对用机器人的生产者们对机械织布机的恐惧开始。 - Perhaps we were latter day Luddites or devotees of Rousseau or Thoreau.
也许我们是近代的卢德派分子，卢梭或梭罗派的追随者。