| 词汇 | mystification |
| 释义 | mystification noun[ U ] uk /ˌmɪs.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌmɪs.tə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/ the state of feeling very confused because someone or something is impossible to understand: 迷惑不解 And then, to the audience's mystification, the band suddenly stopped playing.然后，令观众困惑不解的是，乐队突然停止了演奏。 Synonyms bewilderment perplexity puzzlementformal Confusion, confusing and feeling confused addled all of a doodahidiom all over the placeidiom alphabet soup at seaidiom disarray discombobulation disordered disorganization disorganized muddle muddle something up muddle-headed muddled mush unaccountable unaccountably unexplainable unexplained unsearchable Examples of mystificationmystification I warned explicitly for a mystification of particularity and the dangers of a return to mythology. The earlier comments and criticism selected here fluctuate between different kinds of mystification and misreading. Here we skirt the deep waters of false consciousness, of reification and mystification. In particular, there is a hazy area in which unfamiliar vocabulary is regarded as essential terminology by some, but as pointless mystification by others. The idea of the work of art as occult-inspired enchantment is already a mask for the commodity, and a strategy for its mystification. Gandhi's clear recognition of the role the railways played in undergirding colonial rule cut through the mystification. Some ancient ritual sites, apparently tied to iron working and all of its ritual mystifications, functioned as central foci of cultural identity, political legitimacy and economic production. It is instrumental in an ontological-political mystification, that is, the individual- upon which national, confessional, and class affiliation transpires-rests on the naturalness of a desiring self. This mystification of problems continues. Their new mystification seemed inevitable. I suggest that we read this mechanized production of commodities not simply as the literal mechanized production of factory products / commodities, but also as the mechanized mystification of factory products. There can be a gratuitous element in stylization, and no doubt some stylizations are per formed purely for play or for semiotic mystification, without recoverable motivations or implications. Far from being an example of mere mystification, however, such provisions increase the chance that the criminal law will be morally as well as intellectually coherent. Value in the economic sense, itself a powerful social force, thus appears as a mystification, a chimera that results from the disavowal of the true nature of labor. It is one almost of despair; it is despair, anger and mystification. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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