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patriarchal

/pey-tree-ahr-kuhl/US // ˌpeɪ triˈɑr kəl //

父权制,父权,父权制的,家长制

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
    • : characteristic of an entity, family, church, etc., controlled by men: the highly patriarchal Mormon church.

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Examples

  • Instead, we can take inspiration from women like Elizabeth, a woman who—like so many others before her and long since—was declared insane by a patriarchal society simply for speaking her mind.

  • Sure, the Heidi Klums and Alessandra Ambrosios all walked with figures that represented a type of patriarchal oppression, but that was hardly their fault.

  • You come face to face with the machinery of patriarchal justice, because your word, as a female victim, is doubted at every turn.

  • As princesses, they typically have to learn to assert their agency within a restrictive, patriarchal society.

  • In the gross-out gags of Bridesmaids and Broad City as well as the strip-club revisionism of Hustlers and P-Valley, female creators have challenged the idea that raunchy humor and sexually explicit content must cater to patriarchal tastes.

  • And yes, that authoritarian, patriarchal guru-power structure, invariably, always leads to abuses.

  • In a patriarchal society—our society—a naked woman is a dangerous thing.

  • It seems that, in doing away with patriarchal authority, we have also, perhaps unwittingly, killed off all the grown-ups.

  • Never mind that the patriarchal belief system woven throughout the cartoon content is itself shockingly outdated.

  • Because marriage is a patriarchal, sexist institution that should be discarded rather than reformed.

  • The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!

  • It is true that by patriarchal customs and laws Isaac belonged to Abraham as much as if he were a slave or an animal.

  • Men in patriarchal times may have committed what we regard as crimes, while their ordinary lives were more virtuous than ours.

  • During the patriarchal age the father of the family was priest.

  • Indeed, the patriarchal and Jewish religions were mainly typical.