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localism

/loh-kuh-liz-uhm/US // ˈloʊ kəˌlɪz əm //UK // (ˈləʊkəˌlɪzəm) //

地方主义,本土主义,本地主义,本土化

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a word, phrase, pronunciation, or manner of speaking that is peculiar to one locality.
    • : a local custom.
    • : excessive devotion to and promotion of the interests of a particular locality; sectionalism.
    • : attachment to a particular locality.

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Examples

  • It’s come at a cost for our sense of community, and it may take a new localism to tame America’s vicious political and cultural polarization.

  • Rights preserved localism, rather than promoting individualism.

  • Let him whose own enunciation is chemically free from localism or slovenliness cast the first stone even at "mebbe" and "ruther."

  • Under primitive conditions the political groups are small, the tendency to localism exceedingly strong.

  • The various bodies into which Christendom has been split up are infected with the same sort of localism as infects the state.

  • As New England township life grew up around the church, so western localism finds its nucleus in the school system.

  • Before you began to talk, I had been fancying that the vice of our journalism was its intense localism.