| 词汇 | debunking |
| 释义 | debunking present participle ofdebunk debunk verb[ T ] informaluk /ˌdiːˈbʌŋk/ us /ˌdiːˈbʌŋk/ to show that something is less important, less good, or less true than it has been made to appear: 驳斥;揭穿，揭露…的真相 The writer's aim was to debunk the myth that had grown up around the actress.作者的目的是为了揭穿围绕这位女演员的种种传闻。 Synonym expose Denying & contradicting abnegate abnegation apparently breath bubble burst someone's bubbleidiom contradictorily counter-argue debunk dispute I'm a Dutchmanidiom myth-buster myth-busting non-acceptance non-recognition nonsense oxymoron recant refute speak for yourselfidiom Examples of debunkingdebunking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Debunking and replacing such theories may clarify legal thought by reminding us that we really know better. The linear continuum of transitional residences : debunking the myth. The alternative, he insists, is liberalism; after debunking the liberal interpretation, he celebrates its values. Some debunking experiment was not, in itself, grounds to get rid of anything. The debunking of myths does not explain the evolving meaning of the war for either its survivors or for subsequent generations. Both the 'debunking' tradition and post-colonialism exhibit a strong tendency to envision the past in starkly dichotomous terms. Second, it eschews the quantitative research orientation of positive accounting studies, even though such studies have a certain debunking mission of their own. That too was a myth that needed debunking. This might indeed help to understand better the inner tension, in the second family of models, between its descriptive and its "debunking" (clearly "evaluative") attitude. Any analytic deconstruction of a concept offers a species of cheap debunking if read in a crude and unreflective fashion. The analysis of declinism is thus not merely an exercise in debunking. The main instructive value of seeking knowledge of ageing is the potential it offers for facilitating an untried and vanguard experiment in unlearning and debunking. In the process, he, too, performs a thorough debunking of creationist dogma. His topic was the interaction of ions with aerodynamic flows, with the first portion of the talk devoted to debunking proposed methods for eliminating sonic boom by electrohydrodynamic techniques. And on a more practical level, who does own the past, and what does the stance of debunking continuity imply for struggles over the material remains of history? 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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