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superstition

/soo-per-stish-uhn/US // ˌsu pərˈstɪʃ ən //UK // (ˌsuːpəˈstɪʃən) //

迷信,信仰,胡言乱语,崇拜

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
    • : a system or collection of such beliefs.
    • : a custom or act based on such a belief.
    • : irrational fear of what is unknown or mysterious, especially in connection with religion.
    • : any blindly accepted belief or notion.

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Examples

  • Writers were happy to note the superstition, either to goose it along or knock it down.

  • I believe that in America it’s very similar, except we’re not wobbling between science and superstition, but between science and suspicion, fueled by social media.

  • The problem is that our government sometimes wobbles between science and superstition.

  • Though I don’t follow many superstitions, I definitely won’t cut my hair.

  • It helps that baseball has always been a sport of strange superstitions, with no clock and long odds — where you never know if you’ll connect with the incoming fastball, but you swing anyway.

  • Darwin was among the many scientists that have helped society evolve out of mysticism, superstition and faith.

  • Yet superstition can also be, if my theology is correct, the first step in the other direction on that same road.

  • Tally one for the superstition list… no more laundry at night.

  • There is his superstition about watching every Red Sox game but never the sixth inning.

  • Superstition has it that playing the Man of Steel is a career killer.

  • It is beyond the comprehension of any man not blinded by superstition, not warped by prejudice and old-time convention.

  • I see no infinite goodness here, but only the infinite foolishness of sentimental superstition.

  • Buchanan the historian was, from his learning, thought in his days of superstition to be a wizard.

  • I believe that from the beginning of time the misery of the world has been caused by the superstition that love was all.

  • Organised and authoritative religion the world over makes for ignorance, for poverty and superstition.