词汇 | uncritical |
释义 | uncritical adjective often disapprovinguk /ʌnˈkrɪt.ɪ.kəl/ us /ʌnˈkrɪt̬.ɪ.kəl/ accepting something too easily, because of being unwilling or unable to criticize: 不加批评的;不愿批评的;无鉴别力的 an adoring, uncritical audience盲目崇拜、毫无鉴别力的观众 Stupid and silly absurd absurdity absurdly adolescent against your better judgmentidiom dopey dopily dorky dottiness dotty imprudently in his/her/their wisdomidiom in someone's infinite wisdomidiom inadvisable injudicious subnormal uncritically undiscriminating unintelligent unperceptive Related worduncritically Examples of uncriticaluncritical All the same, the piece never becomes an uncritical celebration of its subjects. The text is marred by the author's uncritical acceptance of the accounts and attitudes of his nineteenth-century sources. The lack of a comparative approach also illustrates that he, himself, ignores his own warning about the uncritical use of sources. Beyond the expressions signifying a sweeping, uncritical enthusiasm, the socalled facts and figures themselves are exaggerated and speculative, based on inadequate and ill-defined criteria. On the other hand, particular collective agencies may fail to survive rational scrutiny, in which case uncritical identification with them would be irrational. In contrast, cultural relativism - the uncritical acceptance of any culture's views as valid within that culture - risks abandoning the substantive values of one's own culture. Through the media, consumers are often confronted with uncritical information concerning new health technologies. The tone of the whole volume is sympathetic, reverent and even affectionate, yet this is not an uncritical piece of hagiography. In archaeology there has often been a tendency towards uncritical borrowing. Even a history of religion that is written in abstraction from this material basis is uncritical. To uncritical readers, it appears that a church-going lady must belong to either one of these two schools of fuss; they can never have depth. First, the uncritical acceptance and perpetuation of conventional analyses can lead to results which, while theoretically elegant, have little or no bearing on linguistic reality. It makes for an ambiguous, easy relationship with truth, fostering uncritical acceptance along with ' ' deliberate and conscious distortions and misrepresentations ' ' of the past (5). Hands (1994) sees the problem in terms of a somewhat uncritical appropriation of neoclassical economics. The uncritical reliance on a number of conventional measures weakens the greater project of applied economics in this volume. 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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