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totalitarian

/toh-tal-i-tair-ee-uhn/US // toʊˌtæl ɪˈtɛər i ən //UK // (təʊˌtælɪˈtɛərɪən) //

极权主义,集权主义,极权主义者,集权主义者

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to a centralized government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinion and that exercises dictatorial control over many aspects of life.
    • : exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others; authoritarian; autocratic.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an adherent of totalitarianism.

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Examples

  • It’s akin to security agents from a totalitarian regime showing up at the house of an opposition leader looking for evidence of espionage.

  • Indeed, history has shown us just how much of a threat schlocky Hollywood entertainment is to totalitarian governments.

  • Kundera was reacting against the efforts of 20th-century totalitarian regimes to refashion novelists as propagandists.

  • So you are saying that Napoleon was not a totalitarian-dictator as many historians are eager to suggest?

  • Biographer Andrew Roberts argues that history has maligned Napoleon by lumping him in with totalitarian thugs.

  • One has to admit that a totalitarian empire is impossible without the Iron Curtain or a system of complete information isolation.

  • Convince her its governments were evil, totalitarian, when in reality they were democratic?

  • This totalitarian trading system insures that foreign trade serves the purposes of the state.

  • They would then be free to impose their will and spread their totalitarian ideology.

  • Modern China faces more than political problems; a totalitarian revolution has engulfed it.

  • The totalitarian state does not recognize personal liberties for the individual.