shibboleths
英 [ˈʃɪbəlɛθs]
美 [ˈʃɪbəˌlɛθs]
n. 过时的观点; 陈旧的原则; 陈词滥调; 某群体特有的习惯(或用语等)
shibboleth的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 过时的观点;陈旧的原则;错误的信念
If you describe an idea or belief as a shibboleth, you mean that it is thought important by a group of people but may be old-fashioned or wrong.- It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter.
是时候摆脱那些传统力量无法遏制的陈规陋习了。
- It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter.
双语例句
- They still cling to many of the old shibboleths of education.
他们仍然固守着许多过时的教育传统。 - In Chile, the politicians have preferred progressive politics shorn of the shibboleths.
在智利，政客们更喜欢剔除了陈词滥调的进步政治。 - These are people from the inside of the company who somehow have maintained enough detachment from the local traditions, ideology and shibboleths that they have retained the objectivity of an outsider.
这些人来自公司内部，但在某种程度上与当地传统、意识形态和习惯保持着足够的出脱，这使他们保持着一个外来者的客观性。