| 词汇 | apologist |
| 释义 | apologist noun[ C ] formaluk /əˈpɒl.ə.dʒɪst/ us /əˈpɑː.lə.dʒɪst/ a person who supports a particular belief or political system, especially an unpopular one, and speaks or writes in defence of it: （尤指不受欢迎的政治信仰或制度的）辩护者，辩解者 communism and its apologists共产主义及其辩护者 There are few apologists for the old system.很少有人为旧制度辩护。 Supporters, members & defenders advocate allyship anti-evolution anti-evolutionary anti-evolutionist apostle apparatchik booster card-carrying member custodian defender non-member non-membership patron patroness pro-natalist protagonist recruit seconder surrogate Examples of apologistapologist But, more important, he challenges political scientists critical of ethnicity, as well as apologists, to re-examine their bias against it. The apologists literally had to write their way past their own liberal frameworks and metaphors. The evil counsellor in this period, as these texts suggest, is increasingly characterized as an apologist for tyranny, often with his own imperial ambitions. As a result, these apologists turn to the rights of the individual as the fundamental political notion. This does indeed reflect a contemporary sensibility with which it is important that an apologist be in tune. None of the three apologists attempted to explain away their eccentric exploits medically, even though this was a standard polemical ploy. However, there are two items of good news for the theistic apologist. If theistic arguments are logically invalid or lack cogency, their employment by the apologist may prove more embarrassing than victorious. There is good news and bad news here for the theistic apologist. However, it would be a mistake to assume that this uncritical appeal to instrumental rationality is limited to apologists for the status quo. There is no reason why the apologist is forced to construe the presentation of theistic arguments as recommending such arguments to the unbeliever as the sole grounds for theistic belief. Concerns had been raised in the 1610 parliament that the politic mystification of the royal prerogative by apologists for absolutism was designed to undermine parliamentary privileges. Moreover, they have come to distrust the arrogant scientists and technologists who have helped to generate these risks, and the states and corporations who have employed scientists as risk apologists. Second, local apologists justified this development by hailing the market as the principal site for the cultivation of civic and moral virtues. Afghan historians have tended to become strident apologists for their respective communities. 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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