英语词汇“Sisyphism”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	Sisyphism
释义	Sisyphism\|ˈsɪsɪfɪz(ə)m\| [f. Sīsyph-us + -ism.] Unceasing and fruitless labour like that of Sisyphus, spec. as a characteristic of modern industrial conditions; also, the view that industrial labour is of this nature. In quot. 1856 the reference is to the use of the crank and similar punishments in prisons. 1846G. R. Porter tr. Bastiat's Pop. Fall. Gen. Interests 24 note, We beg the reader to excuse us if we designate this system hereafter under the name of Sisyphism.Ibid. 26 Industry in practice never admits of Sisyphism.1856Reade Never too Late I. 231 The ancients imagined tortures particularly trying to nature, that of Sisyphus to wit... We have made Sisyphism vulgar.1884Rae Contemp. Socialism 406 These gloomy views have in France received the name of Sisyphism. So ˈSisyphist. 1846G. R. Porter tr. Bastiat's Pop. Fall. Gen. Interests 25 It may be thought, perhaps, that I exaggerate, and that there are no true Sisyphists.
随便看	tosher tosheroon to-shete to-shift to-shiver to-shoot to-shred toshy tosie tosily tosiness Tosk tosk to-skair toske to-skill to-slay to-slift to-slit to-slive to-smite to-souse to-sparple to-spread to-spring

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