| 单词 | prime directive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprime directive prime directive n. originally U.S. a chief objective, goal, or requirement; a guiding principle (in later use popularized esp. by the U.S. science fiction television series Star Trek as a law prohibiting interference with less developed planets and cultures). ΚΠ 1940 Washington Post 17 Feb. 10/4 The prime directive of all working-class groups—unions, political parties, social organizations—is to keep this Nation from embroilment in a new holocaust. 1947 J. Williamson in Astounding Sci. Fiction July 18/1 But that is impossible under the Prime Directive... Our function is to serve and obey, and guard men from harm. 1956 P. Anderson in Astounding Sci. Fiction June 111/1 All of a sudden the Prime Directive was repealed... ‘Under no circumstances whatever may the Patrol or any unit thereof kill any intelligent being.’ 1974 J. Blish Star Trek 10 143 I've violated the Prime Directive. 2000 D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 34 They were adopting the prime directive of the educated class: Thou shalt construct thine own identity. < as lemmas |
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