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McCarthyism

[mə'kɑ:θiizəm]

解释

n. 麦卡锡主义

※ 提供单词"McCarthyism"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

McCarthyism 麦卡锡主义，麦卡锡反共审查

来自美国参议员Joseph McCarthy,美国上世纪50年代反共思想的代表人物，因此，别人就根据他的名字杜撰出该词。该姓氏字面意思为Son of Carthy.

英文词源

McCarthyism: 1950, with -ism + name of U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (1908-1957), leader of U.S. anti-Communist agitation. The term is said to have been coined by "Washington Post" political cartoonist Herbert Block ("Herblock"). The surname is from Irish Mac Carthaigh "son of Carthach" (Welsh Caradawc), an ancient Celtic name, also known in its Latinized form, Caractacus (last of the British leaders to resist Rome, captured 51 C.E.)

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例句和用法

1. At that time, however, McCarthyism prevailed in the United States.: 但当时, 美国麦卡锡主义盛行.

2. Schrecker, Ellen . No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities . 1986.: 《没有象牙塔: 麦卡锡主义和大学》1986.

3. Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America . 1998.: 《许多是罪犯: 美国麦卡锡主义》1998.

4. I blamed him and his generation for everything from McCarthyism to the Vietnam War to Watergate.: 我羞辱他以及他那一代人,从麦卡锡主义到越南战争,到水门事件.