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单词 demythologize
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demythologize

/diːmɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz /
(also demythologise)
verb [with object]
1Reinterpret (a subject) so that it is free of mythical elements: the biographer undertakes to demythologize a man who is for many a modern saint...
  • ‘Stalin isn't subject to demythologizing, and this proves that he is alive,’ wrote Marina Koldovskaya in the liberal weekly magazine Novoye Vremya.
  • Man would be free, he said, if we could demythologize religion.
  • The ‘rape is violence’ feminists also sought to demythologise rape, to take away its special stigma.
1.1Reinterpret what are considered to be mythological elements of (the Bible).The other side of his theology is demythologizing....
  • My way of demythologizing the case for public funding of stem-cell research will not, I fear, make much difference, even if plausible.
  • In the first part of the book, Stahl attempts to demythologize technology by demonstrating its implicit religious character.
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