| 单词 | indoctrination |
| 释义 | indoctrination (once / 21767 pages) n Indoctrination means teaching someone to accept a set of beliefs without questioning them. Your sister's orientation at her new job might seem more like indoctrination if she comes home robotically reciting her corporate employee handbook. Indoctrination often refers to religious ideas, when you're talking about a religious environment that doesn't let you question or criticize those beliefs. The Latin word for "teach," doctrina is the root of indoctrinate, and originally that's just what it meant. By the 1830s it came to mean the act of forcing ideas and opinions on someone who isn't allowed to question them. WORD FAMILYindoctrination: indoctrinations+/doctrinal: doctrinally/doctrine: doctrinal, doctrines, indoctrinate/indoctrinate: indoctrinated, indoctrinates, indoctrinating, indoctrination USAGE EXAMPLESThis second season highlights the indoctrination of the children. New York Times(Dec 16, 2016) The new season spotlights the indoctrination of the young. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) “At American universities the education is so left-leaning that it’s more of an indoctrination than a discussion of ideas,” Wiginton told the Guardian. Time(Nov 28, 2016) n teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically Hypo|Hyper brainwashing forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs inculcation, ingraining, instillingteaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition instruction, pedagogy, teaching the profession of a teacher |
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