| 单词 | thought shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthought shop thought shop n. a place where ideas are discussed or developed; a think-tank. [In quot. 1851 after ancient Greek ϕροντιστήριον phrontisterion n. Compare thinking-shop n. at thinking n. Compounds 2.] ΚΠ 1851 tr. Aristophanes Clouds in Jrnl. Sacred Lit. Apr. 301 I myself here am come to this thought-shop as a disciple. 1901 A. T. Hadley Educ. Amer. Citizen (1969) 173 The laboratory should be a thought-shop rather than a workshop. 1964 R. S. Brumbaugh Philosophers Greece Notes 242 Aristophanes' satiric appraisal of the ‘thought shop’ in The Clouds reflects conservative opinion. 1970 Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, Illinois) 24 June 4/3 They find it harder to get at presidential adviser Henry Kissinger, who heads a ‘thought shop’ of 70 in the White House and launches much of the nation's foreign policy. 1982 European Stars & Stripes (Darmstadt, Germany) 26 Nov. 15/2 He went off in the woods of Westchester County, N.Y., in 1961 to open his own little thought shop, the Hudson Institute, at Croton-on-Hudson. < as lemmas |
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