preconception
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pre·con·cep·tion /ˌpriːkənˈsepʃən/ noun [countable] IDEAa belief or opinion that you have already formed before you know the actual facts, and that may be wrong 事先形成的看法[想法]；先入之见，成见preconception about/of I had the same preconceptions about life in South Africa that many people have. 我对南非的生活抱有和许多人一样的成见。
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preconception• Edelstein challenges any preconceptions one might have of what a New Jersey steel dispatcher should look like.• Everyone has certain preconceptions of what a drug addict is.• There were no thoughts in his mind, no preconceptions, only the demand for information.• But with the new noise come all the old preconceptions and problems of how women present themselves.• I advise anyone to resist preconceptions.• In this era of funding cutbacks and academic brain drains, one must suspend preconceptions.• Once again it was a case of letting their preconceptions about the world get in the way.• They have this preconception of a gun store owner.had ... preconceptions• Fara had no preconceptions about child care and simply did as she was told.pre·con·cep·tion nounChineseSyllable
have you formed that already opinion a Corpus belief or
preconception
pre‧con‧cep‧tion /ˌpriːkənˈsepʃən/
noun [countable]
a belief or opinion that you have already formed before you know the actual facts, and that may be wrong
preconception about/of
I had the same preconceptions about life in South Africa that many people have.
pre‧con‧cep‧tion /ˌpriːkənˈsepʃən/
noun [countable]a belief or opinion that you have already formed before you know the actual facts, and that may be wrong
preconception about/of