单词 | egalitarianism |
释义 | egal·i·tar·i·an·ism 1. a. < the theory of English egalitarianism has … postulated a process of leveling up, not down; of increasing, not diminishing, the middle classes — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > b. < Plato's view of human nature was such as to be clearly opposed to egalitarianism. … Men are naturally unequal — H.E.Barnes & H.P.Becker > 2. < the Tiv people of Nigeria … are nurtured in a “fierce and rather brutal egalitarianism”, and dislike anything that singles anybody out for special attention — Barbara Wootton > 3. < the egalitarianism of the early Christian communities, where distinctions of class were disregarded and even a slave could hold an important position — H.E.Barnes & H.P.Becker > |
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