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dogma

/dawg-muh, dog-/US // ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg- //UK // (ˈdɒɡmə) //

教条,教条主义,教教条,教教条主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dog·mas or dog·ma·ta [dawg-muh-tuh]. /ˈdɔg mə tə/.

    • : an official system of principles or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc., as of a church.
    • : a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively laid down, as by a church: the dogma of the Assumption;the recently defined dogma of papal infallibility.
    • : prescribed doctrine proclaimed as unquestionably true by a particular group: the difficulty of resisting political dogma.
    • : a settled or established opinion, belief, or principle: the classic dogma of objectivity in scientific observation.

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Examples

  • The dogma that a plant cell wall is a thick, more or less permanent barrier “basically disappears with this study.”

  • We’ve let our intuition and dogma kind of bias us to the point where we might be missing a lot of important biology.

  • Michel and Nonardo were discriminated against by society and the dictatorship that governs the country and represses anyone who does not agree with its dogmas.

  • For Japan, part of the protective dogma has been the idea that the virus is spread most perniciously when people speak loudly or shout.

  • Andrew Yang agrees with this diagnosis — but not with the rest of the economic dogma.

  • Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.

  • Had Herx said “this dogma is sexist,” that would be well beyond the reach of the courts.

  • The Liberal Democrats believe drugs policy should be based on evidence, not dogma or the desire to sound tough.

  • Democrats and independents who oppose their dogma are infidels.

  • She says she was released when she feigned acceptance of their dogma.

  • Such are the ideas which the dogma of gratuitous predestination gives of Divinity!

  • The fear of ceasing to be is but an evil for the imagination, which alone brought forth the dogma of another life.

  • It must be made perfectly clear, said the bishop, that Christianity was a religion, and not a dietetic dogma.

  • How do they reason upon a dogma, and quarrel with acrimony about a system of which even themselves can comprehend nothing?

  • The dogma of the immortality of the soul, or of a future life, presents nothing consoling in the Christian religion.