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

colonial cringe n. originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand the view or a belief that one's own national culture is inferior to that of a colonial power which formerly governed the country, esp. the United Kingdom.

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1960 Meanjin Dec. 459 The ‘colonial cringe’ is less pronounced. Book-buyers (and book-sellers) have by now pretty well accepted the local product without the kind of discrimination so harmful during the pre-war days.

1988 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 24 Jan. Australian life was debilitated by a colonial cringe that meant we regarded almost anything Australian as inevitably second rate.

2017 New Yorker 15 May 84/2 The Canadian experience was not free..of the ‘colonial cringe’ that bedevils so many countries overattached to the motherland.

单词	colonial cringe
释义	> as lemmas colonial cringe colonial cringe n. originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand the view or a belief that one's own national culture is inferior to that of a colonial power which formerly governed the country, esp. the United Kingdom. ΚΠ 1960 Meanjin Dec. 459 The ‘colonial cringe’ is less pronounced. Book-buyers (and book-sellers) have by now pretty well accepted the local product without the kind of discrimination so harmful during the pre-war days. 1988 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 24 Jan. Australian life was debilitated by a colonial cringe that meant we regarded almost anything Australian as inevitably second rate. 2017 New Yorker 15 May 84/2 The Canadian experience was not free..of the ‘colonial cringe’ that bedevils so many countries overattached to the motherland. extracted from colonialadj.n. < as lemmas
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