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单词 Anglocentric
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Definition of Anglocentric in English:

Anglocentric

adjective ˌaŋɡləʊˈsɛntrɪkˌaNGɡlōˈsentrik
  • Centred on or considered in terms of England or Britain.

    an Anglocentric view of Australian history
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His arguments might have benefited from a less Anglocentric approach, however - for instance, in his treatment of the ideas of Calvin toward sculpture.
    • Both of these works provide a long-needed bridge between image and word in Christian thought and practice - though we still await works that move beyond the Eurocentric, even Anglocentric, focus.
    • T.S. Eliot's essay of 1929 argues against such Anglocentric and Italocentric definitions, but only by ascribing even greater consistency and homogenising power to Dante.
    • His Scottish kingship was not in any way a trial run for kingship of England; modern scholars of Anglocentric persuasion may make the mistake of thinking that it was, but his English subjects never made that mistake.
    • Few things are so hypocritical than the cry of ‘racism’ when an outsider correctly skewers both England's arrogant, underachieving football team and the grossly Anglocentric British media.
    • Ambler spent a fair bit of time outside England, especially in Paris, which may help explain why his writing escapes the Anglocentric worldview of his predecessors.
    • The threat to Welsh isn't quite so brutal as it was in the 19th century, when speaking Welsh was regarded as offensive by Anglocentric educators.
    • Yet The Many-Headed Hydra also challenges some of Thompson's Anglocentric assumptions.
    • Despite this, most modern historians have judged him from an Anglocentric viewpoint.
    • It would have been useful to place such issues in a more international perspective, but again the author has preferred an Anglocentric viewpoint.
    • Perhaps Koegler was rather Eurocentric; certainly the new dictionary seems somewhat Anglocentric.
    • I find it odd to have such an Anglocentric viewpoint in British Archaeology.
    • He received an Anglocentric education and at the same time learned that he was an outsider.
    • We can thus peer beyond the novel's apparent collusion ‘with Anglocentric conceptions of womanhood as a subject race’.
    • I was shocked by your Anglocentric bias.
    • The distinctive character and possibly the peculiarity of Crozier's book is its Britishness: despite the great amount of material on other countries, the overall view of the war is Anglocentric, and this is not unintentional.
    • The histories of both William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon were in content decisively Anglocentric.
    • A glance at his index, in which ten columns are devoted to England, four to Scotland and a mere three to Wales, suggests that his sources may insist upon telling a predominantly Anglocentric story.
    • In an Anglocentric America, an American means white, and whiteness is central as the unmarked standard or norm against which all so-called minorities are measured.
    • He's critical of the Anglocentric view which defines Caribbean literature as Walcott, Naipaul and not much else.
 
 

Definition of Anglocentric in US English:

Anglocentric

adjectiveˌaNGɡlōˈsentrik
  • Centered on or considered in terms of England or Britain.

    an Anglocentric view of Australian history
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was shocked by your Anglocentric bias.
    • We can thus peer beyond the novel's apparent collusion ‘with Anglocentric conceptions of womanhood as a subject race’.
    • I find it odd to have such an Anglocentric viewpoint in British Archaeology.
    • Despite this, most modern historians have judged him from an Anglocentric viewpoint.
    • Yet The Many-Headed Hydra also challenges some of Thompson's Anglocentric assumptions.
    • Both of these works provide a long-needed bridge between image and word in Christian thought and practice - though we still await works that move beyond the Eurocentric, even Anglocentric, focus.
    • Perhaps Koegler was rather Eurocentric; certainly the new dictionary seems somewhat Anglocentric.
    • His Scottish kingship was not in any way a trial run for kingship of England; modern scholars of Anglocentric persuasion may make the mistake of thinking that it was, but his English subjects never made that mistake.
    • Ambler spent a fair bit of time outside England, especially in Paris, which may help explain why his writing escapes the Anglocentric worldview of his predecessors.
    • In an Anglocentric America, an American means white, and whiteness is central as the unmarked standard or norm against which all so-called minorities are measured.
    • T.S. Eliot's essay of 1929 argues against such Anglocentric and Italocentric definitions, but only by ascribing even greater consistency and homogenising power to Dante.
    • A glance at his index, in which ten columns are devoted to England, four to Scotland and a mere three to Wales, suggests that his sources may insist upon telling a predominantly Anglocentric story.
    • It would have been useful to place such issues in a more international perspective, but again the author has preferred an Anglocentric viewpoint.
    • His arguments might have benefited from a less Anglocentric approach, however - for instance, in his treatment of the ideas of Calvin toward sculpture.
    • He's critical of the Anglocentric view which defines Caribbean literature as Walcott, Naipaul and not much else.
    • He received an Anglocentric education and at the same time learned that he was an outsider.
    • Few things are so hypocritical than the cry of ‘racism’ when an outsider correctly skewers both England's arrogant, underachieving football team and the grossly Anglocentric British media.
    • The histories of both William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon were in content decisively Anglocentric.
    • The threat to Welsh isn't quite so brutal as it was in the 19th century, when speaking Welsh was regarded as offensive by Anglocentric educators.
    • The distinctive character and possibly the peculiarity of Crozier's book is its Britishness: despite the great amount of material on other countries, the overall view of the war is Anglocentric, and this is not unintentional.
 
 
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