| 释义 |
ˈcounter-culture
Also as one word or two.
[counter- 9.]
A radical culture, esp. amongst the young, that rejects established social values and practices; a mode of life opposed to the conventional or dominant. Cf. alternative a. 7.
1970Listener 5 Nov. 622/3 Thought of a traditional kind..is the recognised enemy of the counter-culture. 1970Atlantic Monthly Nov. 112 Some 400 newspapers and magazines now serve the counter culture... More than one underground ‘wire service’ exists, along with radical film and video-tape studios and street theater troupes and poster artists. The preferred name for this considerable activity is ‘alternative media’. 1975A. Powell Hearing Secret Harmonies ii. 72, I was watching a programme..dealing with protest, counterculture, alternative societies. 1977J. Sparks Mindbenders iii. 159 After having drunk deeply from the well of the counterculture with its drugs and oriental mysticism, Hoyt had been converted to Christianity in California. 1984Maledicta 1983 VII. 49 During the 1960s and 1970s in America, the term ‘counter-culture’ was in use to describe the young people who termed themselves in graffiti as ‘the people our parents warned us about’. |