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didactic

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++di·dac·tic /daɪˈdæktɪk, də-/ adjective  1 TEACHspeech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a moral lesson 道德说教的,教诲的 His novel has a didactic tone. 他的小说有一种道德说教的口吻。2. TEACHsomeone who is didactic is too eager to teach people things or give instructions 好说教的,好为人师的didactically /-kli/ adverb
Examples from the Corpus
didacticKubrick made the movie with both didactic and creative intentions.And you can't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd, didactic behaviour.However, the didactic goal usually does irreparable harm to the characterization of the dramatis personae.The play is didactic in tone and ethical in nature.The intellect, by the definition of consciousness, separates itself from the emotions; and didactic literature does the same.This may be because of the built-in didactic nature of any story written specifically for the young.a didactic priestThese stories are more explicit and more didactic, probably because they are more self-consciously in-tended as correctives.They range from the pornographic to the didactic style of Open University programmes.And he is too morally didactic to enjoy, as a biographer must, the complexities and ambiguities of his subject.
Origin didactic (1600-1700) Greek didaktikos, from didaskein to teach
di·dac·tic adjectiveChineseSyllable
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didactic
didactic /daɪˈdæktɪk, də-/ adjective
 Date: 1600-1700
 Language: Greek
 Origin: didaktikos, from didaskein __to teach__
1. speech or writing that is didactic is intended to teach people a moral lesson:
    His novel has a didactic tone.
2. someone who is didactic is too eager to teach people things or give instructions
—didactically /-kli/ adverb


di·dac·ticBrE /daɪˈdæktɪk/ 🔊NAmE /daɪˈdæktɪk/ 🔊 adjective (formal) designed to teach people sth, especially a moral lesson 道德说教的;教诲的;教导的didactic art道德说教艺术(usually disapproving) telling people things rather than letting them find out for themselves 说教似的;好教训人的 di·dac·tic·al·ly BrE /daɪˈdæktɪkli/ 🔊NAmE /daɪˈdæktɪkli/ 🔊 adverb