| 释义 |
enˌvironˈmentalist, n. (and a.)
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n. One who believes in or promotes the principles or precepts of environmentalism; also, one who is concerned with the preservation of the environment (from pollution, etc.).
1916Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. XXI. 628 The environmentalist will often agree with the anti-environmentalist that certain changes in a culture may be due..to certain cultural features..but, objects the environmentalist, these cultural features were, in their turn, produced by the physical environment. 1925F. Thomas Environmental Basis of Society xi. 288 The environmentalist holds, for example, that the snow house of the Eskimo is determined by the surrounding Arctic environment. 1936Nature 26 Sept. 530/1 Whether our outlook be mainly that of the eugenist or that of the environmentalist, we must not ‘cease from mental fight’ until we have..‘built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land’. 1940R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 12) vii. 225 The age-long dispute between the hereditarians and the environmentalists. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 39 Sentimental environmentalists, who adhered to the crudest form of Lamarckism. 1959Archit. Rev. CXXV. 304/2 The people are the Environmentalists... Their means of expression are the relationships between buildings and between spaces, and the element in which they work is time. 1970New Yorker 9 May 33/2 Dr. Robert N. Rickles, a thirty-four-year-old chemist and an environmentalist,..took the helm of the city's Department of Air Resources last month. 1970Nature 15 Aug. 655/2 The project to build a supersonic transport has run into renewed complaints from the environmentalists.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or relating to environmentalism.
1934in Webster. 1952W. J. H Sprott Social Psychol. ii. viii. 147 Blackburn who champions the environmentalist position shows that..it is only among the poorer classes that the negative correlation is significant.
Also enˌvironˌmentaˈlistic a.
1941Natural Hist. Feb. 112 The truths of environmentalism{ddd}serve Doctor Peattie well in this revival of the environmentalistic philosophy. 1962H. J. Eysenck Know your own I.Q. 36 This method of investigation..favours the hereditary rather than the environmentalistic point of view. |