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单词 doctrine
释义 doc·trine
\ˈdäktrə̇n\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin doctrina, from doctor teacher
1. archaic : teaching, instruction
 < He … said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken — Mark 4:2(Authorized Version) >
2.
 a. : something that is taught : something that is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect
  < the doctrine and lore of the early fathers >
 b. : a principle or position or the body of principles in any branch of knowledge : a principle of faith : tenet, dogma
  < the doctrine of atoms >
  < Christian doctrine >
 c. : a principle of law established through past decisions and interpretations
  < the doctrine of caveat emptor >
 d. : a formulation of the principles on which a government proposes to base its actions or policy in some matter especially in the field of international relations
  < the Truman doctrine >
  < the Monroe doctrine >
3. obsolete : learning, knowledge
Synonyms:
 dogma, tenet: doctrine may indicate a formulated theory supported or not controverted by evidence, backed or sanctioned by authority, and proposed for acceptance; it may refer to authoritative teaching accepted by a body of believers or adherents
  < the doctrine of Einstein, which sweeps away axioms so familiar to us that they seem obvious truths, and substitutes others which seem absurd because they are unfamiliar — Havelock Ellis >
  < there was also a nascent theory of sound waves; and out of it there grew a tremendous mathematical doctrine of waves which nowadays has almost come to dominate the physics of these times — K.K.Darrow >
  dogma applies to authoritative teaching or ruling laid down or promulgated as true and unquestionable
  < those who rejected the Marxist dogma found it easy to accept the dogma of those racists who represented Hitler as a modern synthesis of Frederick the Great, Bismarck, Nietzsche, and Kaiser Wilhelm II — Quincy Howe >
  < he sees orthodox science, despite all its achievements, become now the most dangerous enemy of a true philosophy, because its dogmas are least often questioned — J.W.Krutch >
  < the dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary >
  tenet may apply to any principle or opinion generally believed, whether taught and actively maintained or not
  < the other tenet of his materialism is that supernaturalism, though it may have a certain practical justification for the majority of men, has no rational basis — Vivian J. McGill >
  < sympathy for the afflicted, a Christian tenet, has done much to alleviate the sufferings of these unfortunate people — V.G.Heiser >
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