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单词 decentre
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Definition of decentre in English:

decentre

(US decenter)
verb diːˈsɛntəˌdēˈsen(t)ər
[with object]
  • 1Displace from the centre or from a central position.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When teachers decenter their authority in multicultural classrooms, they give students greater responsibility for their own learning.
    • Within this variety, where all races meet at America's crossroads, Levins Morales overcomes racism, decenters European authority, and affirms the power of America's multiracial heritage, all in the tradition of Ferre and Vega.
    • That said, this is a brilliant and exciting book, which succeeds in decentering and refocusing our vision and understanding, forcing us back to both history and history painting to ask new and different questions.
    • Like Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible, Gregory seeks to decenter a Eurocentric viewpoint.
    • Similarly, the drive to topple God from his throne (or decentre him as a universal referent for all knowledge) is closely bound up with the emergence of freedom as a key political value in Liberalism.
    • I believe it was Freud who humbly suggested that the three greatest scientific revolutions were those that decentred humanity.
    • A snow-scape in almost permanent semi-opalescent darkness decentres the authority of vision and brings into the foreground the sonic environment.
    • So Far From God parodies the family saga to decenter patriarchal biases inherent in the form; it further critiques individualism and constructs a new literary identity characterized by community.
    • Around 1915, Shapley decentered the solar system by placing it toward the periphery of our galaxy.
    • Many comments reflected the peer group leaders' efforts to decenter their authority, although they also reveal that group members repeatedly characterized their leaders as more than peers.
    • Such narratives decenter national black protest organizations and their local branches, lending greater attention to indigenous, unaffiliated groupings.
    • He challenges and decenters the accounts given in the Western press.
    • Such investments reorganize instruction in ways that decenter the faculty, rationalize teaching, and expand the role of nonfaculty professionals.
    • Some within these movements understand that they have to study, to know more, to decentre themselves from the culturally dominant ideology.
    • In this way, Ferre decenters the dominant culture of Puerto Rico, exposing its complicity with the margins, a move that is especially radical since it comes from a writer who inhabits that very center.
    • Freeman, a professor of history at Queens College, identifies several explanatory factors that decenter the city's image as a bastion of high finance and high culture.
    • They have decentered Euro-American feminism and are looking at lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender identities.
    • Such a stance decentres the place and expertise of academics.
    • A consistent political factor of these new literatures lies in its strong impetus towards decentring the existing hierarchy.
    • The Nyoirin Kannon has been the subject of many scholarly discussions, and in my attempt to decenter it I have only added to the literature.
    1. 1.1 Remove or displace (the individual human subject, such as the author of a text) from a primary place or central role.
      for decades, poststructuralists decentred the author as the originating source of meaning for the literary work
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The double meaning of language obliges the patient to decentre himself, to differentiate himself from the object; for the patient thinks he has heard one thing and then realises that the analyst has been saying something different.
      • A post-structuralist destabilizing or decentring of the self is not the same thing as doing away with the notion of the self.
      • Postmodernism's lack of explicit political content, however, remains for me problematic, as does its decentering of the subject and its approach to political action.
      • Despite many contemporary (and to my mind not at all nutty) attempts to decentre the author, in a book like this you can't escape the totalitarian presence (in what I've written above, I too have not succeeded).
      • The trip to Lublin has decentered the American from his role as spectator into the role of participant in the multi-voiced dialogue of the journey.
 
 

Definition of decenter in US English:

decenter

(British decentre)
verbˌdēˈsen(t)ər
[with object]
  • 1Displace from the center or from a central position.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They have decentered Euro-American feminism and are looking at lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender identities.
    • Some within these movements understand that they have to study, to know more, to decentre themselves from the culturally dominant ideology.
    • He challenges and decenters the accounts given in the Western press.
    • Similarly, the drive to topple God from his throne (or decentre him as a universal referent for all knowledge) is closely bound up with the emergence of freedom as a key political value in Liberalism.
    • Such investments reorganize instruction in ways that decenter the faculty, rationalize teaching, and expand the role of nonfaculty professionals.
    • Around 1915, Shapley decentered the solar system by placing it toward the periphery of our galaxy.
    • I believe it was Freud who humbly suggested that the three greatest scientific revolutions were those that decentred humanity.
    • Like Barbara Kingsolver in The Poisonwood Bible, Gregory seeks to decenter a Eurocentric viewpoint.
    • So Far From God parodies the family saga to decenter patriarchal biases inherent in the form; it further critiques individualism and constructs a new literary identity characterized by community.
    • Within this variety, where all races meet at America's crossroads, Levins Morales overcomes racism, decenters European authority, and affirms the power of America's multiracial heritage, all in the tradition of Ferre and Vega.
    • Such narratives decenter national black protest organizations and their local branches, lending greater attention to indigenous, unaffiliated groupings.
    • Freeman, a professor of history at Queens College, identifies several explanatory factors that decenter the city's image as a bastion of high finance and high culture.
    • When teachers decenter their authority in multicultural classrooms, they give students greater responsibility for their own learning.
    • In this way, Ferre decenters the dominant culture of Puerto Rico, exposing its complicity with the margins, a move that is especially radical since it comes from a writer who inhabits that very center.
    • A snow-scape in almost permanent semi-opalescent darkness decentres the authority of vision and brings into the foreground the sonic environment.
    • Many comments reflected the peer group leaders' efforts to decenter their authority, although they also reveal that group members repeatedly characterized their leaders as more than peers.
    • Such a stance decentres the place and expertise of academics.
    • That said, this is a brilliant and exciting book, which succeeds in decentering and refocusing our vision and understanding, forcing us back to both history and history painting to ask new and different questions.
    • The Nyoirin Kannon has been the subject of many scholarly discussions, and in my attempt to decenter it I have only added to the literature.
    • A consistent political factor of these new literatures lies in its strong impetus towards decentring the existing hierarchy.
    1. 1.1 Remove or displace (the individual human subject, such as the author of a text) from a primary place or central role.
      for decades, poststructuralists decentered the author as the originating source of meaning for the literary work
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite many contemporary (and to my mind not at all nutty) attempts to decentre the author, in a book like this you can't escape the totalitarian presence (in what I've written above, I too have not succeeded).
      • The double meaning of language obliges the patient to decentre himself, to differentiate himself from the object; for the patient thinks he has heard one thing and then realises that the analyst has been saying something different.
      • The trip to Lublin has decentered the American from his role as spectator into the role of participant in the multi-voiced dialogue of the journey.
      • Postmodernism's lack of explicit political content, however, remains for me problematic, as does its decentering of the subject and its approach to political action.
      • A post-structuralist destabilizing or decentring of the self is not the same thing as doing away with the notion of the self.
 
 
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