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blinkered

/bling-kerd/US // ˈblɪŋ kərd //UK // (ˈblɪŋkəd) //

盲目的,盲目性,盲目,懵懵懂懂

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : narrow-minded and subjective; unwilling to understand another viewpoint: When in the Oval Office, Hoover was blinkered by his distrust of government.
    • : having blinkers on; fitted with blinkers: a blinkered racehorse.

Examples

  • Doing so reflects a blinkered understanding of how inequality operates and perpetuates itself.

  • She alludes a lot to ambition and wanting fame, the kind of hard-nailed, blinkered ambition that drives actors and actresses.

  • Instead, he carried on with his blinkered views and remained an isolationist.

  • Paradoxically, the money boom engendered a religion boom—and religion of a particularly blinkered and aggressive sort.

  • I trudge along like a traveller between high hedgerows; my heart is blinkered so that I am scarcely aware of landscapes.

  • But Telal was not so easily to be blinkered, and kept to his first judgment.

  • These blinkered letters, with only writing and no touch of live hands, convey so little.

  • The blinkered black pony came up like a hawk, with two of his own side behind him, and Benami's eye glittered as he raced.