| 词汇 | prescriptive |
| 释义 | prescriptive adjective formal mainly disapprovinguk /prɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/ us /prɪˈskrɪp.tɪv/ saying exactly what must happen, especially by giving an instruction or making a rule: 规定的，指定的;（尤指）规范的 Most teachers think the government's guidelines on homework are too prescriptive.大部分教师认为政府有关家庭作业的规定太刻板了。 Compare normativeformal descriptive Giving orders & commands all-points bulletin boss someone around bossily bossiness bossyboots commanding decree demand dictate expect harry instruct prescribe push someone around put something on self-ordained shove shove someone around stick task prescriptive | American Dictionaryprescriptive adjective us/prɪˈskrɪp·tɪv/ tending to say what someone should do or how something should be done: His basic attitude toward language is highly prescriptive. Examples of prescriptiveprescriptive To the modern scientific mind, these two prescriptive statements are of different types. But as with all stages of development models there is a lurking danger that they will be used in a simplistic and prescriptive way. It is through communicational acts that prescriptive rules for action are propagated, affirmed, contested, or rejected. Perhaps one of the reasons why teachers tend to focus on grammatically oriented lessons is the availability of prescriptive grammars and textbooks. Linguists have been confused by campaigns against sexist language: are they prescriptive conspiracies or a kind of natural change? It seems that they can only describe a language - otherwise they could be criticized by their colleagues for being prescriptive. This brief essay is not intended to be narrowly predictive, or even prescriptive. The role of education, prescriptive grammars, and attitudes/evaluations (including variation used for characterization in literary texts after 1700) is sadly neglected. The teaching/ learning steps were prescriptive and in fixed the language sequentially arranged between these two points. It can be prescriptive (narrowly specifying what is possible) or flexible (allowing a range of types of implementation). They no longer treated historical evidence as itself carrying prescriptive force. The protagonist challenges the prescriptive behavior constituting the ideology of women's propriety and invites speculation about her immodest, transgressive behavior. This could be attributed to the fact that these debates are in their infancy and the authors wish to avoid being prescriptive. Norms are prescriptive motivators for behaviour : they incline people to do the right thing if not diverted by other obligations or attractions. Scores of electronic music may thus be either prescriptive or descriptive, and may not always contain representations of every aspect of the music. 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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