| 词汇 | blinkered |
| 释义 | blinkered adjective uk /ˈblɪŋ.kəd/ us /ˈblɪŋ.kɚd/ A blinkered person is unable or unwilling to understand other people's beliefs, and blinkered opinions or ways of behaving show someone is unable or unwilling to understand other people: 有偏见的;心胸狭隘的 He's very blinkered in his outlook.他的观念非常狭隘。 Narrow-minded be set in your waysidiom be wearing blindersidiom be wearing blinkersidiom blinker closed-minded hidebound myopia myopic myopically narrow-minded narrow-mindedly narrow-mindedness non-thinking prissy provinciality provincially prude prudish unreconstructed unthinking Examples of blinkeredblinkered It is rather that he is blinkered, insufficiently appreciative of his own nature. A short-term phenomenon mingled with a blinkered outlook has formed the basis for a too-sweeping generalization. He comes across as an earnest but blinkered academic. Is this because either or both are bad archaeologists, or being perverse or blinkered? It inevitably takes a blinkered view, a position well explained by the author from the outset. Such a blinkered approach has considerable merit, for it neatly captures the fact that cooperation is possible even in the face of considerable disagreement about facts and values. In its decontextualized forms, it can even sometimes begin to underscore a self-serving, blinkered analyses of structures of authority that are unfamiliar and outside the range of one's own culture. Bushnell stressed the limitations of religious language and, in particular, the dangers of a blinkered dogmatic terminology. It has to be, so that its lessons and recommendations sink in to the dim or blinkered consciousness of politicians with the authority to make a material response. They dismissed as cheap any reconceptualization talk that appeared in the policy discourse and rededicated their blinkered focus to examinations of the 'real' payoffs. Fairfax's careful selection and shaping of copious quotations from primary sources should convince all but the most blinkered reader that this period's dances and dancers were anything but primitive. Morley was a fitting focus for the celebrations, having welcomed him onto the staff in 1942 after more august, and blinkered, institutions had shown no interest. It is relatively easy for them to be blinkered when looking at a house. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not, therefore, such an inflexible, blinkered policy as might be imagined at first glance. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He has not been constricted by the language of the civil service and has not taken a narrow and blinkered view. 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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