| 词汇 | iconoclast |
| 释义 | iconoclast noun[ C ] formaluk /aɪˈkɒn.ə.klæst/ us /aɪˈkɑː.nə.klæst/ a person who strongly opposes generally accepted beliefs and traditions: 反传统信仰者;反传统者 Rogers, an iconoclast in architecture, is sometimes described as putting the insides of buildings on the outside.罗杰斯是个打破建筑学传统的人，有时他被说成是把建筑物的内部结构摆到了外观上。 Disapproving & criticizing anathematize animadversion aspersion aw backbite barrel bash belabour boo disapprobation knock knocker let someone have both barrelsidiom low blow mordacious mordancy pile slam there you goidiom union-basher Examples of iconoclasticonoclast With one stroke the iconoclast is now able to start the most powerful suction and force pump ever devised. Can we retrieve a meaning that would bring the broken pieces together, like archaeologists repair the damages of time, that greatest of all iconoclasts? The modernists always have difficulty in understanding themselves because of their iconoclasm and because of the indefinite worries they have of having been iconoclasts. The hammer strikes sideways, it strikes something other than that which the iconoclast wanted to break. The corporation resisted, as far as it could, royal instructions to make good the damage caused on various occasions by iconoclasts. Freedom is precisely what triggers and justifies the iconoclast's strokes. It can still be used, to be sure, but not by an iconoclast and not to shatter a belief. So the position of the iconoclasts tends to be viewed monochromatically, if not merely in hostile caricature. At this level, there was almost complete continuity through the iconoclast century. The iconoclasts, led by a local innkeeper, entered the church in mid-sermon. Understanding iconoclasm in this way challenges the over-neat distinction between active iconoclasts and passive parishioners. The older approaches are not globally optimisable (pauline) or involve exhaustive search (iconoclast). Puritans and humanists, iconoclasts and sovereigns, topographers and heralds expressed a range of views on how the dead might best be remembered. We see why we cannot be naive enough in attributing naive belief in antifetishism to the iconoclast. The only one who is projecting feelings onto the idol is the iconoclast with a hammer, not those who should be freed, by his gesture, from their shackles. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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