词汇 | paternalist |
释义 | paternalist noun[ C ] politics usually disapprovinguk /pəˈtɜː.nə.lɪst/ us /pəˈtɝː.nə.lɪst/ someone in authority who thinks or behaves in a way that results in them making decisions for other people rather than letting them take responsibility for their own lives: 实行家长式统治的人;家长主义者 He was a paternalist who ruled wisely.他是一位明智型的家长式统治者。 They had a sincere, albeit paternalist, interest in Aboriginal welfare.他们对原住民的福利有着真诚的兴趣,尽管是家长式的。 See paternalism He was a paternalist, providing his workforce with welfare services and housing. He was a benevolent paternalist, protecting the masses from themselves. His attitude to labour was that of an early nineteenth-century Tory paternalist. Controlling and being in charge aggrandize assert your authority assume assumption authoritative cynical get the better of someoneidiom get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom get/fall into the wrong handsidiom govern guiding principle peremptorily peremptory play Godidiom plenipotentiary police slow tame wrangle wrangler |
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