| 词汇 | demonize |
| 释义 | demonize verb[ T ] (UK usuallydemonise)uk /ˈdiː.mə.naɪz/ us /ˈdiː.mə.naɪz/ to try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are evil: 使恶魔化，将…妖魔化 The Nazis used racist propaganda in an attempt to demonize the Jews.纳粹试图利用种族主义宣传将犹太人妖魔化。 Damaging reputation anti-defamation aspersion besmirch black mark blacken blot defamatory defame dog drag someone's name through the mire/mudidiom give a dog a bad nameidiom hatchet job scurrilous scurrilously self-immolation show someone in a bad lightidiom slander slur smear tarnish demonize | American Dictionarydemonize verb[ T ] us/ˈdɪ·məˌnɑɪz/ to try to make someone or a group of people seem completely evil: The mayor demonizes anyone who disagrees with him. Examples of demonizedemonize They tend to beatify the woman and demonize the author. Tariff reformers demonized free trade as a policy favouring narrow financial interests above producers. The characters or relationships thus take on these associations, which come with specific valuations along a scale of positive to negative, lionized to demonized. I enjoyed the way he presents the various positions of many historical figures and movements in relatively sympathetic terms, rather than demonizing or deifying these actors. Herodotus began that process when he demonized some foreign tribes while mythologizing others. I am said to "downplay liberalism's own role" in exclusionary practices by failing to recognize that liberal language has been used to demonize many who threatened those in power. Vindiciae, contra tyrannos is not an appeal to what adversaries demonized as the ' many-headed monster ' to take up arms against the ruler deemed tyrannical. He was idolized and demonized as few other rulers have been, and our image of his character is confused by the hatred or goodwill of the parties involved. This mixed approach is a way to avoid romanticizing or demonizing one side or another in the eighteenth-century confrontation, and capture the duality of law in its full complexity. Finally, we must not demonize any experience or initiative, whether negative or positive. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Let us remember this and not demonize other people's drugs. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Even so, demonizing competition, as some of you are doing, is really no way to serve the public. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Some have recommended solutions such as an all-round reduction of working hours with full compensation for employees, in other words demonizing flexibility and the new organization of work! From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Some members emigrated, and those who remained were endiablados, demonized. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The tone in which the attributes of these children are described has been characterized as demonizing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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