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单词 man from mars
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man from Mars
man from Mars n. a hypothetical observer of human behaviour and society whose perspective would be entirely detached and objective; (attributive) designating such a detached perspective or attitude.
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1948 V. Massey On being Canadian i. 11 If ‘the man from Mars’..could see us, what would he think of our future as a community?
1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) i. 1 A completely man-from-Mars attitude toward any language.
1975 Business Week 22 Dec. 56/1 Two years ago, the proverbial man from Mars might have sniffed the stench of Watergate and predicted that the U.S. would undergo a period of almost puritanical political reform.
1989 Atlantic Aug. 23/1 Ely took a man-from-Mars look at Japanese trading practices.
1994 Guardian 29 Oct. 26/1 Does anybody, incidentally, think that the world is a poorer place because the unsubstantiated allegations against Mr Smith were substantiated? A man from Mars, innocently reading HMG statements over the last couple of days, might be forgiven for concluding otherwise.
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