received

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++re·ceived /rɪˈsiːvd/ adjective [only before noun] formalCORRECT accepted or considered to be correct by most people 被普遍接受的；公认的received opinion/wisdom etc (=the opinion most people have) 普遍的意见等 The received wisdom is that he will retire within the next year. 大家普遍认为他将于明年之内退休。

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received• Such a search will involve itself of course with received institutions; certainly it will go beyond them.• Sontag's articles challenged received notions about photography.• Innovation, as so often in the market itself, is seen primarily within these received terms.received opinion/wisdom etc• And as Mr Blunkett has found, academic findings often run counter to received wisdom.• His entire performance is magnificently unsettling and is no sense the Liszt Sonata of received wisdom.• These were repeated daily by journalists until they became the received opinion, a sign of belonging to the crowd.• They became part of received wisdom, and to some extent, they remain so.• I am, in this regard, simply challenging received wisdom as to which is the chicken and which the egg.• Out of sheer perversity, the thinking human seems impelled to say something contrary to whatever received opinion has been yelling at him.• This is what received wisdom says.• There may be, too, a sottovoce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification.

re·ceived adjectiveChineseSyllable

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received
re‧ceived /rɪˈsiːvd/