| 单词 | we-they |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswe-they we-they adj. relating to or exhibiting a tension between two mutually exclusive groups. ΚΠ 1935 A. Meiklejohn What does America Mean? iii. 46 Much of our current social theory and practice is obsessed by a persistent fallacy. It is the ‘We–They’ fallacy... ‘We’ who plan for society have spiritual commitments. But ‘they’, for whom we plan, have physical needs... ‘We’ and ‘they’ belong to separate worlds. 1965 Observer 25 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 13/1 The children have a chance of learning to deal with adults, without the we-they feeling. 2003 New Internationalist Jan. (Chronicle 2002 Suppl.) 2/2 A preoccupation with an external enemy, a clinging together in an almost tribal unity and a frightening kind of ‘we-they’ politics. < as lemmas |
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