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activist

/ak-tuh-vist/US // ˈæk tə vɪst //

活动家,活动人士,活动者,活跃分子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an especially active, vigorous advocate of a cause, especially a political cause.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to activism or activists: an activist organization for environmental concern.
    • : advocating or opposing a cause or issue vigorously, especially a political cause: Activist opponents of the president picketed the White House.

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Examples

  • Walker was elected governor of Wisconsin in 2010 and 2014 and became a favorite of GOP activists as he battled public sector unions.

  • In a proposal that meets activists in the middle, Fischer announced that the department will retain social workers to support and assist officers on dispatch runs.

  • You can, of course, also volunteer with an activist group — whether it’s Extinction Rebellion, the Sunrise Movement, or Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future — and put your body in the street to nonviolently disrupt business as usual and demand change.

  • An LGBTQ activist and journalist in Cuba says authorities on Wednesday threatened to arrest him.

  • “Today, Facebook caved to a pressure campaign by far-left activists, effectively censoring our effort to inform voters about Democrat threats to women’s athletics,” Schilling said.

  • Jacob Cordova, 27, is the latest activist to be jailed for their activities.

  • A new book from gay rights activist Marc Solomon sets the record straight about how gay marriage victories were really won.

  • The reason: activist government and unionized government often work at cross purposes.

  • Vlad Burlutskiy is a civic and political activist from Russia who fled the country last year due to increasing threats.

  • Larry Kramer, the renowned activist and playwright, was invited to talk after a last minute cancelation.

  • We are not speaking of a reactionary revolution but of the "activist."

  • This school of medicine advocated a return to clinical observation and a reduction of activist intervention.

  • Well, it made me realize that he would like to be active in some kind of—activist.

  • They are concerned about unethical conduct by public officials, and discouraged by activist courts that try to redefine marriage.

  • It is the fear lest abroad it may be imagined that there really is an "activist" movement in Belgium.