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单词 rubric
释义

rubric

/ˈruːbrɪk /
noun
1A heading on a document.Ten chapters, each laid out under the rubric of a song title, map out some of the main concerns of popular music studies in a textbook format....
  • It was perhaps the first and the bitterest indictment of the press's irresistible tendency to trade in human suffering under the rubric of ‘human interest’.
  • The discussions were organised under the rubric of four broad themes: economic production, access to wealth, civil society and the public arena, and, political power and ethics.
1.1A category: party policies on matters falling under the rubric of law and order...
  • This is different than, say, any of us choosing to include a list of sites we regularly visit, rubrics or categories we embrace.
  • The photographs in the archive can be categorized under three major rubrics: objects, portraits, and landscapes.
  • I answer this quandary by suggesting that we exist under two different constitutions - one for peace and another for war; and whatever exercise of power that cannot be justified under one rubric can be under the other.
2A set of instructions or rules.Be careful to read through the rubric, the instructions on the examination paper....
  • In some circumstances, it is possible to switch to a project-oriented curriculum with a clear rubric rather than a homework/test-based curriculum.
  • I am uncomfortable with applying these rubrics in a wholesale fashion to the work of honours students.
2.1A direction in a liturgical book as to how a church service should be conducted.Pope Benedict XVI is an expert on liturgy and the rubrics of liturgical celebration....
  • Fr Robert said he was totally taken with Mass, the centuries of tradition behind it, the liturgy, the rubrics, the rituals and he decided to become a Catholic.
  • Archbishop Parker's Advertisements, issued in response to disputes over clerical dress and ceremonies, enforced the rubrics of the Prayer Book.
2.2A statement of purpose or function: art for a purpose, not for its own sake, was his rubric...
  • Religion as an academic discipline and campus ethos was, in general, the guiding rubric; that left out, for example, religious rituals and practices.
  • The standard rubric is that critics care about literary quality, not commercial success.

Derivatives

rubrical

/ˈruːbrɪk(ə)l/ adjective ...
  • I have grouped the readings together into five types of evidence: allegorical, liturgical, rubrical, and canonical, ancillary liturgical, scriptural, and historical and catechetical.
  • The rubrical indications of the entrance rite make clear that this is to be seen primarily as a musical part of the rite.

Origin

Late Middle English rubrish (originally referring to a heading, section of text, etc. written in red for distinctiveness), from Old French rubriche, from Latin rubrica (terra) 'red (earth or ochre as writing material)', from the base of rubeus 'red'; the later spelling is influenced by the Latin form.

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