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chauvinism

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++chau·vin·is·m /ˈʃəʊvənɪzəm $ ˈʃoʊ-/ noun [uncountable]  1 PREJUDICEDa belief that your own sex is better or more important than the other sex, especially if you are a man 本性别至上主义;〔尤指〕大男子主义者 male chauvinism 大男子主义2 PREJUDICEDa strong belief that your country or race is better or more important than any other 沙文主义,本国[本民族]至上主义 national chauvinism 民族沙文主义
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chauvinismThey regard a last-minute request to spend the weekend collating figures in Darlington as proof positive of their triumph against chauvinism.The academy was labeled a stronghold of male chauvinism.He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out.But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.The absence of media chauvinism is testimony, Morris Matthews believes, to the women's communication skills.Perhaps it is because of a hearty dislike of chauvinism and exaggerated nationalism that I have not become an intense patriot.This sense is often identified with nationalism and patriotism which can be dangerously close to racism, chauvinism and xenophobia.Bandaranaike used Sinhalese chauvinism to gain power, but found he could not control it.For the less sophisticated, it was chauvinism.male chauvinismWe doubt if any of the men on translation committees or who did their own translations are conscious of any male chauvinism.Hence also the exaggerated tribalism, the bullheaded racism of an Alf Garnett, the dogged male chauvinism of an Andy Capp.He's had a lifelong fight with feminists who accuse him of extreme male chauvinism and damaging their dignity.He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out.Marriage experts have slammed Laura's ideas as offensive and pandering to male chauvinism.But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.
Origin chauvinism (1800-1900) French chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin early 19th-century French soldier who strongly expressed his love for France and Napoleon
chau·vin·is·m nounChineseSyllable
Corpus your sex belief that a is own


chauvinism
chauvinism /ˈʃəʊvənɪzəm, ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzəm $ ˈʃoʊ-/ noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1800-1900
 Language: French
 Origin: chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin early 19th-century French soldier who strongly expressed his love for France and Napoleon
1. a belief that your own sex is better or more important than the other sex, especially if you are a man:
    male chauvinism
2. a strong belief that your country or race is better or more important than any other:
    national chauvinism


chau·vin·ismBrE /ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzəm/ 🔊NAmE /ˈʃoʊvɪnɪzəm/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (disapproving) an aggressive and unreasonable belief that your own country is better than all others 沙文主义 = male chauvinism