individualism

英 [ˌɪndɪˈvɪdʒuəlɪzəm]

美 [ˌɪndɪˈvɪdʒuəlɪzəm]

n.  个性; 独特的气质; 个人主义; 个人至上

TOEFLTEM8经济

BNC.10406 / COCA.10574

牛津词典

noun

• 个性；独特的气质
  the quality of being different from other people and doing things in your own way
• 个人主义；个人至上
  the belief that individual people in society should have the right to make their own decisions, etc., rather than be controlled by the government
  1. Capitalism stresses innovation, competition and individualism.
     资本主义强调的是创新、竞争和个人至上。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 个性;特立独行
  You useindividualismto refer to the behaviour of someone who likes to think and do things in their own way, rather than imitating other people.
  1. He is struck by what he calls the individualism of American officers.
     他称其为美国军官的个性给他留下了很深的印象。
• N-UNCOUNT (国家对经济、政治的)不干涉主义，自由放任主义
  Individualismis the belief that economics and politics should not be controlled by the state.
  1. ...the strong individualism in their political culture.
     他们的政治文化中浓厚的个人自由主义

英英释义

noun

• the quality of being individual
  1. so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality
  Synonym:individualityindividuation
• the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
  Synonym:laissez faire
• a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence

双语例句

• They approve of collectivism but have a tendency of individualism, money worship and hedonism;
  赞同集体主义的道德原则，但也出现了个人主义、拜金主义和享乐主义倾向；
• This is a manifestation of petty-bourgeois individualism.
  这是小资产阶级个人主义的表现。
• He is struck by what he calls the individualism of American officers.
  他称其为美国军官的个性给他留下了很深的印象。
• Some people and cultures might have both high individualism and high collectivism, for example.
  有些人与文化可能都高个人主义和集体主义，例如。
• Nietzsche is not only the initiator of modern western philosophy but the initiator of modern bourgeois individualism.
  尼采不仅是现代西方哲学开创者，而且也是现代资产阶级个人主义的开创者。
• The romantic idealists also turned aside sharply from the individualism and humanism of eighteenth-century philosophy.
  浪漫唯心主义者们还突然背离了十八世纪哲学中的个人主义和人文主义。
• In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
  在当代西方社会，快速变化的时尚迎合了人们追求新奇和个性的需求。
• The ethical discourse of aesthetics embodies individualism or universalism or their complex correlation.
  在现代性语境下，美学的伦理话语主要表现为个体主义、普遍主义以及两者的复杂关系。
• The ideal of the family system is necessarily dead set against the ideal of personal individualism.
  家族制度的理想必然是和私人个人主义的理想势不两立的。
• The atomistic individualism of the post-Montesquieu French Enlightenment blocked the development of a genuinely sociological concept of society.
  孟德斯鸠以后的法国启蒙运动的原子论的个人主义妨碍了真正社会学的社会观的发展。