网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 revisionist
释义

Definition of revisionist in English:

revisionist

noun rɪˈvɪʒ(ə)nɪstrəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəst
  • 1A supporter of a policy of revision or modification.

    the revisionists who sought to replace it were long denied
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Throughout the century, revisionists were continually accused of being tools or sympathizers of the kaiser.
    • The working-class resistance which revisionists admiringly celebrated was nonetheless doomed to romantic failure.
    • We'll plan on fighting the revisionists all the way.
    • A few of the revisionists were almost pro-Nazi in their outlook.
    • To the revisionists, the novelty of the 'new' police was neither efficiency nor integrity.
    • His 1956 publication was the leading inspiration to revisionists in the Labour Party.
    • The libertarian revisionists do not maintain this thesis.
    • For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.
    • The revisionists in his country are in essence reactionaries, and clearly he gave them something to react against.
    • It has nothing whatsoever to do with celebrating the mastering of anyone else, contrary to popular revisionists' belief.
    1. 1.1 A person with a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view.
      revisionists have argued that the battle was crucial
      Example sentencesExamples
      • With revisionists everywhere, in a world of short memories, someone needs to be out there beating the drum.
      • These fundamentalists want to be known as traditionalists, while they are actually revisionists with no historical backing or facts.
      • The revisionists use the absence of evidence to bolster their claims.
      • The author highlights the revisionists' almost wilful ignoring of long-established archaeological and textual data.
      • Many of the revisionists want to replace her angel image with another female archetype, the harridan.
      • We are a nation of historical revisionists.
      • He has few kind words for the revisionists—including the crooner's oldest son—who portrayed his father as distant and cold.
      • Revisionists have suggested that the admiral's dying words were actually "Kismet, Hardy."
      • Revisionists stubbornly dismiss as fictitious most historical aspects of the Bible.
      • How do you frame the story historically without becoming a revisionist?
adjective rɪˈvɪʒ(ə)nɪstrəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəst
  • 1Advocating a policy of revision or modification.

    a radically revisionist republican strategy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has endorsed all of the fundamental tenets of the president's revisionist approach to foreign policy.
    • It preferred a revisionist policy that would appeal to a larger section of the population.
    • One sees here yet another variant of the revisionist tactics of pitting the old against the new.
    • The revisionist party that has emerged has even allowed its general secretary to enter the puppet government.
    • He manages to avoid the revisionist, anti-establishment, overwhelmingly negative posturing.
    • He analyses how self-loathing is essential to their revisionist belief.
    • For all its complexity, the revisionist programme is best understood as affirming the fruitfulness of critical reflection.
    • The prevailing tendencies of our literature after independence tended toward revisionist politics.
    • It's the most infuriating part of the novel, which indeed rises to the level of revisionist propaganda.
    • Their underlying idea is no different than that promoted by revisionist governments around the world.
    1. 1.1 Promoting a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view.
      he is unimpressed by the arguments of revisionist historians
      a revisionist view of the media's role in politics
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It could be argued that the earlier, revisionist westerns act as precursors of the postmodern westerns we see today.
      • Despite its revisionist delusions, it offers very little that's new to the genre as a whole.
      • It's a sparkling presentation of the film-maker's latest attempt at revisionist history.
      • It is rightly revisionist in its interpretation of things like the supposedly expressed construction of the Turbine Hall.
      • The exhibit offers a revisionist view of the state and its cultural legacy.
      • Rather than attempt a revisionist reworking of the novel's themes, he has provided a reasonably straight adaptation.
      • Such large-scale shows and the well-researched, revisionist art history that accompanies them have become a standard here.
      • Her revisionist agenda is to demonstrate that the shift of the center of the art market from Paris to New York predates World War II by one war.
      • It's a little bit revisionist for some people in terms of the whitewashing of this historical character.
      • Each of these is based on some subtly revisionist imagining of history that ring as falsely as Spielberg's film.

Definition of revisionist in US English:

revisionist

nounrəˈviZH(ə)nəstrəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəst
  • 1A supporter of a policy of revision or modification.

    the revisionists who sought to replace it were long denied
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The libertarian revisionists do not maintain this thesis.
    • It has nothing whatsoever to do with celebrating the mastering of anyone else, contrary to popular revisionists' belief.
    • Throughout the century, revisionists were continually accused of being tools or sympathizers of the kaiser.
    • His 1956 publication was the leading inspiration to revisionists in the Labour Party.
    • A few of the revisionists were almost pro-Nazi in their outlook.
    • The working-class resistance which revisionists admiringly celebrated was nonetheless doomed to romantic failure.
    • To the revisionists, the novelty of the 'new' police was neither efficiency nor integrity.
    • We'll plan on fighting the revisionists all the way.
    • The revisionists in his country are in essence reactionaries, and clearly he gave them something to react against.
    • For both conservatives and revisionists, revolutionary violence cannot be blamed on the revolution's opponents.
    1. 1.1 A person with a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view.
      revisionists have argued that the battle was crucial
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The author highlights the revisionists' almost wilful ignoring of long-established archaeological and textual data.
      • Revisionists stubbornly dismiss as fictitious most historical aspects of the Bible.
      • The revisionists use the absence of evidence to bolster their claims.
      • These fundamentalists want to be known as traditionalists, while they are actually revisionists with no historical backing or facts.
      • How do you frame the story historically without becoming a revisionist?
      • He has few kind words for the revisionists—including the crooner's oldest son—who portrayed his father as distant and cold.
      • With revisionists everywhere, in a world of short memories, someone needs to be out there beating the drum.
      • Revisionists have suggested that the admiral's dying words were actually "Kismet, Hardy."
      • Many of the revisionists want to replace her angel image with another female archetype, the harridan.
      • We are a nation of historical revisionists.
adjectiverəˈviZH(ə)nəstrəˈvɪʒ(ə)nəst
  • 1Advocating a policy of revision or modification.

    a radically revisionist republican strategy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • One sees here yet another variant of the revisionist tactics of pitting the old against the new.
    • The prevailing tendencies of our literature after independence tended toward revisionist politics.
    • The revisionist party that has emerged has even allowed its general secretary to enter the puppet government.
    • Their underlying idea is no different than that promoted by revisionist governments around the world.
    • He manages to avoid the revisionist, anti-establishment, overwhelmingly negative posturing.
    • He analyses how self-loathing is essential to their revisionist belief.
    • It has endorsed all of the fundamental tenets of the president's revisionist approach to foreign policy.
    • It's the most infuriating part of the novel, which indeed rises to the level of revisionist propaganda.
    • It preferred a revisionist policy that would appeal to a larger section of the population.
    • For all its complexity, the revisionist programme is best understood as affirming the fruitfulness of critical reflection.
    1. 1.1 Promoting a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view.
      he is unimpressed by the arguments of revisionist historians
      a revisionist view of the media's role in politics
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's a sparkling presentation of the film-maker's latest attempt at revisionist history.
      • It is rightly revisionist in its interpretation of things like the supposedly expressed construction of the Turbine Hall.
      • It's a little bit revisionist for some people in terms of the whitewashing of this historical character.
      • Her revisionist agenda is to demonstrate that the shift of the center of the art market from Paris to New York predates World War II by one war.
      • The exhibit offers a revisionist view of the state and its cultural legacy.
      • Despite its revisionist delusions, it offers very little that's new to the genre as a whole.
      • Rather than attempt a revisionist reworking of the novel's themes, he has provided a reasonably straight adaptation.
      • Such large-scale shows and the well-researched, revisionist art history that accompanies them have become a standard here.
      • It could be argued that the earlier, revisionist westerns act as precursors of the postmodern westerns we see today.
      • Each of these is based on some subtly revisionist imagining of history that ring as falsely as Spielberg's film.
随便看

 

春雷网英语在线翻译词典收录了464360条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2000-2024 Sndmkt.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2025/1/15 18:41:47