释义 |
apartheida‧part‧heid /əˈpɑːtaɪt, -teɪt, -taɪd $ -ɑːr-/ noun [uncountable] apartheidOrigin: 1900-2000 Afrikaans ‘separateness’ - an anti-apartheid organization
- Mandela was in prison for over 25 years for opposing apartheid in South Africa.
- The state could face social apartheid if minority students do not have access to higher education.
- A more subtle form of restriction is to proceed by a philosophy akin to that of apartheid.
- But many streets in areas formerly reserved for whites still recall apartheid and colonial figures.
- But these days a general amnesia has set in, and it is almost impossible to meet anyone who believed in apartheid.
- Even though the white woman is oppressed herself, she has a vested interest in apartheid.
- She disagreed with the system of apartheid.
- The remnants of the old left hoped victory over apartheid would see the realisation of their ideals.
- This is my old college, where under apartheid a celebrated anti-authoritarian spirit characterised staff and students.
- Williamson is well known to have been a highly successful spy, and high up in the apartheid regime's disinformation network.
to separate people from each other, the rest of society etc► separate to keep two or more people apart, especially so that they cannot cause any trouble together: · Teachers thought it best to separate Paul and Fred and put them in different classes.separate somebody from somebody: · Separating prisoners from each other is sometimes the only way of preventing riots. ► keep somebody apart to separate two or more people so that they cannot talk to or harm each other: · At the party it seemed only sensible to keep her ex-husband and her new boyfriend apart.keep sb apart from: · Sex offenders are often kept apart from other prisoners for their own safety. ► isolate to keep someone away from other people, especially because they are suffering from an infectious disease: · We used to routinely isolate people who had measles.isolate somebody from: · The six other patients were immediately isolated from the infected four. ► cut somebody off from to separate someone from the people they are usually with: · She realized that he was trying to cut her off from her friends.· It's easy to get cut off from your family when you first go overseas. ► segregate to separate one group of people from others, especially because of their race, sex, religion etc: · Schools should not segregate children with disabilities.· Faith-based schools would only segregate society further.be segregated from: · Male prisoners were strictly segregated from the females. ► segregation the practice of keeping people of different races apart and making them live, work, or study separately, especially because one race believes that members of the other race are not as good as they are: · Racial segregation in schools still exists in some southern states.· Civil rights protestors called for an end to all segregation. ► apartheid the former South African political and social system in which black and white races had to go to separate schools, live in separate areas etc as a way of keeping white people in their position of power: · Mandela was in prison for over 25 years for opposing apartheid in South Africa.· an anti-apartheid organization ► in quarantine separated from other people because you have or may have an infectious illness that they could catch if they were with you: · One of the crew caught smallpox, and soon they were all in quarantine.put somebody in quarantine: · All animals entering the UK used to have to be put in quarantine. ► Policiesagitprop, nounapartheid, nounclass struggle, nouncollectivism, nouncolonialist, nouncommunism, nounconsciousness raising, nounconsumerism, noundemocrat, noundemocratic, adjectivedemocratize, verbdenationalize, verbdesegregate, verbdoctrine, noundogma, noundove, noundovish, adjectivedrive, nounfiat, nounhawk, nouninternationalism, noun-ism, suffixism, nounland reform, nounMachiavellian, adjectivemanifesto, nounMarxism, nounmeritocracy, nounnihilism, nounnon-aggression, nounnon-intervention, nounnon-partisan, adjectivenon-violence, nounopen-door policy, nounpacifism, nounpacifist, nounparty line, nounpassive resistance, nounperestroika, nounpolitical action committee, nounprivate member's bill, nounprogramme, nounradical, adjectivereaction, nounreformist, adjectiverevisionism, nounsocial democracy, nounsocial engineering, nounsocialism, nounsocialist, adjectivesocialist, nounsubsidiarity, nounwomen's lib, noun NOUN► government· Charts show how the apartheid government spent 10 times more on white students than on blacks. ► system· How do you see this togetherness in relation to hope for change in the apartheid system? the former political and social system in South Africa, in which only white people had full political rights and people of other races, especially black people, were forced to go to separate schools, live in separate areas etc |