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revisionism

/ri-vizh-uh-niz-uhm/US // rɪˈvɪʒ əˌnɪz əm //UK // (rɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm) //

修正主义,修订主义,修改主义,修补主义

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : advocacy or approval of revision.
    • : any departure from Marxist doctrine, theory, or practice, especially the tendency to favor reform above revolutionary change.
    • : a departure from any authoritative or generally accepted doctrine, theory, practice, etc.

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Examples

  • Some of them try to twist Watergate and write a story of bogus revisionism.

  • Certainly, we have had an upward revisionism of Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan.

  • How far the Kremlin intends to go with its rock and roll revisionism no one seems able to predict.

  • I don't go in for this O'Connor revisionism, just because she's not as out there as some of her successors.

  • And what would an enterprise featuring Ron Paul be without a little Civil War revisionism?