shibboleth

1 He shows how tech-world shibboleths like “dropping out,” “disruption,” “genius” and “failure” help shore up an industry built on privilege, machismo and even cruelty.

2 She repeated the old shibboleth that time heals all wounds.

3 “Giving up giving it up” becomes the shibboleth of Lysistrata and the girlfriends of the other players.

4 One of the most cherished shibboleths of the right is that African-Americans complain about police brutality while conveniently overlooking the violence in their own neighborhoods.

5 It’s a shibboleth that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas took hold of that new utopia of so-called movies for grownups and rendered it juvenile.

6 Henry Reid, engineer-in-charge of the Langley laboratory, crooned to his employees, the shibboleth a reminder of the importance of the airplane to the war’s outcome.

7 As I’ve been writing for nearly a year, the idea that wage increases drive inflation has been an enduring shibboleth among economists.

8 His article is stuffed with shibboleth.

他的文章中满是一些陈词滥调。

9 “The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.”

10 There are still those would insist on the last answer, which has been a critical shibboleth for a very long time.

11 Knowing which one is the white wine glass and which is the red is something of a shibboleth, and a person who will shame you for not being sure is a jerk.

12 One of the shibboleths of the increasingly fascist American right is a quote commonly attributed to the decade-dead Andrew Breitbart: "Politics is downstream from culture."

13 Letterboxd, the social network for recommending and reviewing movies, has become a kind of shibboleth for film nerds over the past decade.

14 But with the children taught this stuff, they are by about 10, 12 max, woeful concretenesses and shibboleths.

15 Her mission was to make a beautiful, livable, and—most important—eco-friendly interior that bucked the tired shibboleth that green living isn’t pretty.

16 Jazz shibboleths all come in for a questioning here.

17 But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.

18 Its invocation of shibboleths such as “medical freedom” and “health freedom” — coded justifications for opposition to vaccine mandates — led to its getting “picked up by the Republican Tea Party in Texas,” Hotez says.

19 But she flees old-time shibboleths; hers is its own kind of otherworldly.

20 The personal, as the old shibboleth goes, is political.

1 词语

verbal imitative term expression

2 服装

vestiary thing property wear dress habit trim toilet costume rig garment feather apparel dressing fig attire guise rigging garb drapery investiture toilette garniture caparison toggery turnout wearing apparel

3 切口

sign cut scarf slit incision scotch slang snick surface gate notch patter

4 习惯

regular given habitual wonted consuetudinary use way practice mode custom manner trick habit usage rite wont knack observance praxis habitus usance consuetude season accustom

5 陈词滥调

platitudinal platitudinous tag jazz chestnut platitude tired corny cliché banality commonplace

6 口令

call word sign command password countersign challenge alarm-word watchword pass-word

7 暗号

sign watchword countersign sign and countersign

8 教义

doctrinal dogmatic teaching gospel doctrine tenet dogma

9 习俗

traditional custom rubric habitude consuetude use and wont

10 黑话

talk flash slang jargon patter cant argot