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lib·er·al
lI b rl [or] lI brl
复数:liberals
比较级:more liberal
最高级:most liberal
liberally (adv.), liberalness (n.)
词根:liberal
adj.liberalist 自由主义的
liberalistic 自由主义的
adv.liberally 大方地;自由地;公平地;充足地
n.liberalization 自由化;自由主义化;放宽限制
liberalism 自由主义;开明的思想或见解
liberality 慷慨,大方;心胸宽阔,胸怀广阔
liberalisation 自由化;开放
liberalist 自由主义者
liberalness 公正;宽宏大量;慷慨
vi.liberalize 自由化
vt.liberalize 使自由化;宽大
adjective
freely giving; generous.She made liberal contributions to various charities.He dished out liberal portions of the casserole.The bartender certainly put a liberal amount of gin in this martini.
respectful of individual differences; tolerant.The school hoped to establish a liberal environment where all students would feel respected.Her parents were more liberal than his and were comfortable to have a son-in-law of a different faith.
favoring progressive political change. (Cf. conservative.)She is a liberal politician who hopes to bring about far-reaching changes in the prison system.He joined a liberal organization in the early sixties dedicated to abolishing segregation.
(cap.) of or relating to the U.S. or British political party favoring progressive political change and involvement of the government to bring about reforms. (Cf. Conservative.)He is the Liberal Party candidate.
relating to democratic forms of government rather than monarchies or aristocracies.The new leader wished to establish a liberal form of government in a country that had never known political freedom.
not adhering to the literal, exact, or orthodox; freely interpretive; not strict.a liberal interpretationa liberal translation
noun
one who adheres to a progressive political philosophy, which favors government promotion of social change and the primacy of individual liberty. (Cf. conservative.)The liberals think that the government should do more to create jobs for the unemployed.
(cap.) a member of the U.S. or British Liberal Party; favoring progressive political change and involvement of the government to bring about reforms. (Cf. Conservative.)The Liberals are the victors in this election.
liberal education普通教育;文科教育
liberal partyn. 自由党
liberal democratic partyn. 自由民主党
liberal democracy自由民主;自由民主主义;自由民主制(一种政府形式,由人民选出的民意代表行使决策权力)
liberal art文科
liberal arts education博雅教育
liberal economy自由经济
liberal democrat自由民主党(成员);自民党人
college of liberal arts文学院;人文学院
liberal studies人文学科
liberal translationn. 意译法
liberal arts college文理学院;文科大学
14世纪中期,“慷慨”的义项来源于“出身高贵的,高贵的,自由的”; 从14世纪后期开始,它的义项包括“无私的,宽宏大量的,值得钦佩的”; 15世纪初期则有了贬义,“铺张浪费的,放纵的,恣意的”,源自于古法语 liberal “适合自由人的; 高尚,慷慨; 乐意的,热心的”(12世纪),直接源自拉丁语 liberalis,“高贵的,亲切的,慷慨的”,字面意思是“属于自由,与自由人相关或适合自由人的”,源于 liber “自由的,不受限制的,畅通无阻的; 放荡的,不受控制的,放肆的”。
这被推测源于原始印欧语 *leudh-ero-, 可能最初的意思是“属于人民”,尽管其确切的语义演变不明确。但是可以与 frank (形容词)进行比较。这是基于根源 *leudh- (2) “人民”的形成,来自(还来源于古教会斯拉夫语 ljudu, 立陶宛语 liaudis, 古英语 leod, 德语 Leute “民族,人民”; 古高地德语 liut “个人,人民”)。
Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
Confess'd the vile encounters they have had
A thousand times in secret.
["Much Ado," IV.1.93]
最像一个自由的恶棍的人,
已经确实坦白了自己秘密发生的卑鄙的交往
一千次以上。
——《众所周知》IV.1.93。
在16世纪到17世纪, Liberal 作为一种具有“言行不受约束”含义的责骂语汇得以使用。启蒙运动时期,其在“没有偏见,容忍,不狭隘或偏执”的意义下重新得到了积极的赞誉,这在1776-88年期间得以确立。19世纪时,其出现了神学类含义,与 orthodox 相对,成为指代世界统一主义、普遍主义等团体的用语。关于教育用途,请参考 liberal arts。
仅仅指政治观点,“有助于自由和民主倾向”的意义可以追溯到1801年左右,源于法语 libéral。在英语中,标签最初由反对者使用(通常采用了法语形式,暗示了外国的法不责众性),以表示对支持个人政治自由的政党的不满。但是在美国政治中,“自由的”更倾向于“支持政府行动以实现社会变革”,这似乎在某些情况下更多地源于“没有偏见,支持传统观念和既定机构的桎梏”(因此开放于新思想和改革计划),这种意义可以追溯到1823年。
This is the attitude of mind which has come to be known as liberal. It implies vigorous convictions, tolerance for the opinions of others, and a persistent desire for sound progress. It is a method of approach which has played a notable and constructive part in our history, and which merits a thorough trial today in the attack on our absorbingly interesting American task. [Guy Emerson, "The New Frontier," 1920]
这是一种普遍被称为自由的心态,它意味着坚定的信念、对他人的观点包容和对健康进程持续的渴望。这是一种在我们的历史中发挥了重要和建设性作用的方法论,值得在我们的充满吸引力的美国行动中得到充分的尝试。——盖伊·艾默生,《新界线》,1920年。
【修】自由,丰富,充足
Adjective and Noun Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin liberalis suitable for a freeman, generous, from liber free; perhaps akin to Old English lēodan to grow, Greek eleutheros free
The first known use of liberal was in the 14th century
liberalitynoun
the quality or state of being liberal
a generous act
liberalismnoun
a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
liberalismnoun
a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
liberalismnoun
a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
liberal1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or based on the liberal arts
a liberal education
not stingy : generous
a liberal giver
more than enough
a liberal allowance
not strictespecially: not bound by traditional forms or beliefs
of or relating to liberalism : not conservative
liberal2 of 2noun
a person who is liberal especially in politics
1 The debate itself was well attended, the tiny hall packed full of students, community leaders, and a sprinkling of white liberals from Duke University.
2 Its leaders founded a black college—which became the first publicly supported liberal arts college for blacks in the United States.
3 Dad is there in the beginning—Dad with his funny jokes about socialists and dogs and the roof that keeps liberals from drowning.
4 This applies only for white liberals, by the way.
5 From die social snubs of his commanding officers, he was picking up his hatred of Eastern liberals and the Ivy League at the same time as he was falling in love with Brooks Brothers clothing.
6 Although I was to discover a core of sympathetic whites who became friends and later colleagues, most of the whites at Wits were not liberal or color-blind.
7 Most Western societies are liberal in outlook.
西方社会大多思想观念开放。
8 As he had suspected on the last night of the charrette, he could not simply move over into the liberal world.
9 Yes, I will pull off that liberal’s halo that he spends such efforts cultivating!
10 Former military leaders and their supporters sought to blame Germany’s defeat on cowardly and traitorous liberal politicians, rather than on the exhaustion of the German war machine.
11 I approved of the liberal encyclicals concerning ‘the Church in the modern world.’
12 “Here we see both liberals and conservatives endorsing the same meta-narrative of American individualism: When individuals get ahead, the group triumphs. When individuals succeed, American democracy prevails.”
13 Yes, I grew up and live in one of the most liberal states in the nation.
14 Nevertheless, despite acknowledging the validity of certain liberal ideas, Bobby seemed to be hardening toward the world and losing sensitivity to people in need.
15 And he is as a relative liberal within Mr Putin's entourage.
在普京的随从中,他认为是比较自由的.
16 No record of the conversation exists, though Jefferson had already apprised Madison that he knew the Adamses well enough to expect “dispositions liberal and accommodating.”
17 Parents from as far away as New York sent their children to Allen for its rigorous liberal arts curriculum, its religious teaching, and its insistence on imparting social graces to its students.
18 I could picture going up in flames copies of Dickens, Stevenson, Zola, Doyle, Shakespeare and many others—donations by white liberals appalled by the state of black education.
19 As small countries dependent on foreign markets, they followed a liberal trade policy in the main, though a protectionist movement developed in Sweden.
作为依赖外国市场的小国,它们主要奉行自由贸易政策,尽管在瑞典出现了保护主义运动。
20 They explained that they had to be careful about appearing to be too close to the Klan; blacks and liberals could make things very uncomfortable for them.
1 宽大
free-hearted big large open easy light soft royal broad Catholic decent loose mild gentle generous charitable tolerant forgiving indulgent lenient permissive soft-hearted great-hearted freeheartedness quarter charity tolerance forgiveness generosity greatness indulgence softness leniency liberality broadness soft-heartedness full
2 随便
free familiar informal offhand throwaway promiscuous folksy light-minded anyhow license haphazard dishabille in the rough hit and miss
3 大量
great strong heavy billion fat Mass massive vast ample legion abundant trillion galore copious profuse hard highly heavily freely extensively generously abundantly liberally profusely lavishly voraciously copiously plentifully prodigiously body million bank bag mountain volume ocean quantity wealth stack flood acre pile bulk bucket abundance multitude heap slew raft ream heaviness boatload vastness profusion immensity scads pocketful oodles cartload wodge much plenty good serious numerous extensive substantial generous myriad lavish substantive swingeing widely substantially tons score host mass array ton chunk feast torrent proliferation trove dollop swathe truckload multiplicity cornucopia plenitude welter bucketful lashings quite a lot bit few like nobody's business like weeds by the bucketful by the bucket a lot a bunch an awful lot a stack of right and left in bulk heaps of a good bit like mad a raft of in spades meikle large round healthy rich endless flush macro Wealthy affluent lousy voluminous helluva massed fulsome unstinted volumed big manifold rife aplenty lashins lakh cut-and-come-again world lot power store kind deal chance load pack river sea crowd sight universe mess barrel bundle packet gallon considerable mint tub cargo flock herd regiment generosity swarm embarrassment deluge wad bushel peck spate slather ruck gob fistful lashing grist scad feck mort shipload cloudburst muchness trunkful shoal bagful sackful routh mickle skinful jugful barrelful quiverful jollop jorum at wholesale enough and to spare by the gross by considerable quite a little whips of a great deal bags of any amount in gross like flies no end of
4 充足
ample abundant handsome plenteous enough sufficiency exuberance plenitude bag of up to the scratch sufficient long perfect fair rich replete bountiful profuse teem go far plentiful plenty abound plenitudinous good great competent amply amplitude galore
5 开明
open broad enlightened liberally liberality liberalize open-minded broad-minded respect progressive enlightenment openness
6 胸怀开阔
7 大方的
free generous handsome lavish princely munificent unstinted freehanded gracious unstinting unsparing bounteous decent big-hearted free-handed heart of gold open-handed big bountiful easy tasty respectable profuse large-handed freehearted open-hand
9 自由民的
10 宽容的
11 自由党党员
12 能接受新思想的
13 丰盛的
14 放荡的
cadgy half-shot fast Nice wild loose messy abandoned slippery easygoing wanton riotous profligate licentious dissolute lecherous rakish debauched dissipated raffish sluttish rackety rakehell leching
15 不受束缚的
16 丰富
large full plenty rich fat pregnant substantial generous wealthy abundant lush prolific plentiful hearty affluent galore copious opulent teeming exuberant voluminous bountiful prodigal well-off profuse luxuriant aplenty plenteous abounding largely generously superbly abundantly profusely prolifically plentifully exuberantly luxuriantly opulently bounteously wealthily riches wealth abundance heap fertility amplitude richness fullness exuberance opulence profusion affluence cornucopia fecundity plenitude luxuriance ampleness abound enrich fertilize richen quite a little in abundance in plenty thick robust lavish riotous bounteous fully pregnancy lashing swim on easy street in profusion have no lack of healthy ample fulsome unstinted richly cut-and-come-again lashings quantity rife awash exuberate overflow horn of plenty good easy free flush bumper redundant fertile stout marrowy feracious substantially store flood roundness liberality prodigality teemful plenitudinous demoid productive Wealthy enriched liberally fatly scouth riot generosity profligacy variegation oodles routh affluency desterilize increase lard irrigate bags of stiff with
17 自由
free wide independent loose unconventional open-ended unfettered unconstrained disengaged untrammeled uncombined reinless freely liberally free-lance unconstrainedly sciolto license freedom liberty latitude disengagement freeness unconventionality liberte Uhuru unmew unrein unleash liberate disengage untie unfetter disenthrall disenthral without restraint set at liberty a capriccio feel free to V vocally at large at liberty unconfined will unchain clear unrestricted unstructured unbound unencumbered unhampered large ease ex- un- unhand emancipate unshackle without let or hindrance on the loose free-floating space licence open quit libertarian uncontrolled permissive unrestrained unattached emancipated untrammelled free-will optional independently uhuru laisser-aller street discretion unconstraint liberty cap freehand contingent frank libertine go-as-you-please ad-lib uncurb uncloister release franchise vindicate unbridle set free
18 宽容
easy tolerant forgiving indulgent forbearing liberally tolerantly indulgently charity tolerance forbearance
19 很多
many great plenty ten rich wealthy legion plentiful galore voluminous prodigal profuse umpteen aplenty plenteous lotsa scads lot load bag volume lashing mort hatful abound a vast deal of a good few quite a little a lot plenty of a large number of quite a bit a whole lot of a crowd of a great many loads of a load of a heck of a a great number of gobs of no little no end of by the dozen
20 大量的
long wealthy round serious Mass massive extensive vast substantial flush infinite legion abundant prolific plentiful substantive heavy-duty galore bountiful fulsome aplenty lank billion gazillion power mess wall-to-wall a good deal up the wazoo a gogo great strong heavy fat ample trillion copious profuse numerous generous myriad lavish swingeing abundantly much bulk large healthy volume rich mass endless macro Wealthy affluent lousy voluminous helluva massed unstinted volumed enough and to spare whips of bags of no end of
22 无偏见的
open unbiased indifferent open-minded unprejudiced unbiassed independent objective generous wide judicial impartial colourless uninfluenced enlighten free colorless wide-open fair-minded broad-minded unswayed untinged broad-gauge
23 笼统的
24 慷慨大方的人
25 放任的
26 非专业的
27 丰盛
28 慷慨的
free generous handsome lavish bountiful princely munificent unsparing open-handed unstinted ungrudging great-hearted freehanded freehearted charitable prodigal beneficent magnanimous big-hearted bounteous unstinting decent free-handed large open catholic boon good-hearted kindhearted bighearted greathearted free-hearted without stint have an open hand be big of big gentle free with good large-hearted large-handed strong loose flush unselfish profusive open-hand
29 自由的
free wide independent loose unconventional open-ended unfettered unconstrained disengaged untrammeled uncombined reinless a capriccio at large at liberty unconfined clear unrestricted unstructured unbound unencumbered unhampered disengage free-floating open quit libertarian uncontrolled permissive unrestrained unattached emancipated untrammelled free-will freehand contingent frank libertine go-as-you-please
30 思想开明
31 不严格的
32 宽宏的
33 开放
on-limits free emancipated exoteric opening openness glasnost open expand unfold dispark unbar on limits liberated open-door patency
35 广泛
large general wide broad comprehensive open-ended far-reaching far-flung regnant scattershot cyclopedic cyclopaedic generally amply proverbially
36 广泛的
large general wide broad comprehensive open-ended far-reaching far-flung regnant scattershot cyclopedic cyclopaedic
37 心胸宽阔的
38 不精确的
39 无偏见
open unbiased indifferent open-minded unprejudiced unbiassed broad-mindedness independent objective generous objectivity wide judicial impartial colourless uninfluenced liberality enlighten free colorless wide-open fair-minded broad-minded unswayed untinged broad-gauge W.P.
40 心胸宽广
41 自由主义的
42 很多的
many great plenty ten rich wealthy legion plentiful galore voluminous prodigal profuse umpteen aplenty plenteous lotsa a vast deal of a good few plenty of a whole lot of a great many a heck of a gobs of no little no end of
43 模糊
dull obscure dim vague blurred woolly illegible indistinct muzzy obscurity faintness muffle obfuscate
44 自由党
47 自由民主党人
48 宽宏大度
50 度量大的
51 公正的
just right white honest judicial cricket righteous equitable candid plumb magisterial dinkum right minded fair minded
53 丰富的
large full plenty rich fat pregnant substantial generous wealthy abundant lush prolific plentiful hearty affluent galore copious opulent teeming exuberant voluminous bountiful prodigal well-off profuse luxuriant aplenty plenteous abounding thick robust handsome lavish riotous bounteous on easy street in profusion healthy ample fulsome unstinted rife awash good easy free flush bumper redundant fertile stout marrowy feracious teemful plenitudinous demoid productive Wealthy enriched bags of
54 宽大的
free-hearted big large open easy light soft royal broad Catholic decent loose mild gentle generous charitable tolerant forgiving indulgent lenient permissive soft-hearted great-hearted
55 慷慨
free generous handsome lavish bountiful princely munificent unsparing open-handed unstinted ungrudging great-hearted freehanded freehearted largely freely generously liberally handsomely unsparingly unstintingly generosity bounty liberality lavishness prodigality with a free hand charitable prodigal beneficent magnanimous big-hearted bounteous unstinting charity magnanimity munificence without stint virtuously ungrudgingly large open catholic boon good-hearted kindhearted bighearted greathearted free-hearted kindly catholicity have an open hand be big of big decent gentle free-handed well goodness largesse free with richly good large-hearted large-handed profusion largess largeness strong loose flush unselfish profusive open-hand with open hand do handsome
56 自由主义者
57 自由党的
59 放荡
cadgy half-shot fast Nice wild loose messy abandoned slippery easygoing wanton riotous profligate licentious dissolute lecherous rakish debauched dissipated raffish sluttish rackety rakehell leching riot fling dissolution folly incontinence dissipation orgy debauchery fastness profligacy debauch libertinism rake dissipate
60 放任
61 充足的
ample abundant handsome plenteous bag of sufficient long perfect fair rich replete bountiful profuse plentiful plenitudinous good great enough competent
63 大方
free generous handsome lavish princely munificent unstinted freehanded generously bountifully bounteously liberality munificence gracious unstinting unsparing unsparingly generosity bounty prodigality bounteous decent big-hearted free-handed handsomely heart of gold open-handed big bountiful naturally freely richly naturalness easy tasty respectable profuse large-handed freehearted profusion freeness open-hand liberally taste decency
64 不严厉的
65 宽宏