词汇 | subvert |
释义 | subvert verb[ T ] formaluk /səbˈvɜːt/ us /səbˈvɝːt/ to try to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system: 破坏,动摇,颠覆(尤指现有的政治体制) The rebel army is attempting to subvert the government.叛军试图推翻政府。 Our best intentions are sometimes subverted by our natural tendency to selfishness.我们的良好意图有时会被自私的本性所破坏。 Deteriorating and making worse add admin aggravate backslide be downhillidiom debase deteriorate deterioration devaluation devalue disintegrate dog one step forward, two steps backidiom regress regression regressive regressively wear thinidiom worse worsen Examples of subvertsubvert The enthusiastic accumulation by fans of an unending suite of related images both echoes and subverts the mass mechanical reproduction of the modern celebrity image. In this manner, the use of an alien aesthetic functions analogously to a camp aesthetic that subverts claim to artistic privilege or autonomy. However, during other episodes or parts thereof the performers intentionally subverted the 'seriousness and compulsion for precision', as though to ridicule or laugh at themselves. Each had been ' subverted ' by the corrosive spread of irreligious philosophies within its elites. The veil of ignorance is a useful theoretical tool because bias toward oneself can potentially subvert understanding of social justice. Covert channels such as power consumption subvert the assumptions on which high level abstractions are based. What should finally be stressed though is that our historically reflexive awareness of psychoanalysis is a major factor in subverting its totalizing aspirations. Thus, the lack of control associated with religious virtue fails to subvert it as does lack of control in the case of moral virtue. Institutions and individuals can subvert, ignore, or flout the best-intended laws. It is not new for an artist to subvert the meaning of familiar objects or to challenge our interpretations of imagery. Those which subvert strategies of essentialism can be understood in the interstices of ' ' historical, social and material realities. However, according to one view, this basic configuration can be subverted in order to accommodate neutralisation. The negative, apophatic approach can be seen either as subverting itself, or as being restricted to certain properties, or as resting on a self-excluding principle. These cultural differences are problematic for principlist theories of global or international bioethics because they subvert claims of convergence - "all" do not agree. But this would subvert his bourgeois standpoint in general, and especially his position as the defender of absolutism. 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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