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单词 revolutionary
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Definition of revolutionary in English:

revolutionary

adjective rɛvəˈluːʃ(ə)n(ə)riˌrɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri
  • 1Involving or causing a complete or dramatic change.

    革命性剧变的,大变革的

    a revolutionary new drug

    革命性新药。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most farmers are really interested in innovation, but automatic milking might seem too revolutionary.
    • I'd heard that it was a science fiction classic, with revolutionary ideas about free love and community.
    • In fact, he thought, their hostility was often proof of the revolutionary nature of his ideas.
    • The reforms that started in 1991, are bringing in more and more revolutionary changes.
    • That appointment was revolutionary, for never in its more than one hundred years in St Lucia had a native son held the top job.
    • Why are you so convinced that his new work will be so revolutionary?
    • And they had a more revolutionary idea: They might help patients recover from relapses once they happened.
    • Doctors in Britain are set to start trials of a revolutionary treatment for heart disease using stem cells, it emerged yesterday.
    • Through a revolutionary computer mock-up of the development potential tenants can now take a virtual tour of the building.
    • Mr Carroll and his colleagues recently spoke of their work at a meeting in London and the revolutionary approach left a huge impression.
    • By focusing on the superficial, they missed what is truly revolutionary about the game.
    • They started painting outdoors, which itself was considered to be quite revolutionary.
    • I think it's going to be quite revolutionary in the corporate world.
    • And the most revolutionary changes are taking place in the field of education.
    • Yoko Ltd manufactures a revolutionary bonnet which is designed to make life more comfortable for premature babies.
    • While a video might not seem revolutionary, the execution was.
    • Later, after the move to London, the revolutionary changes in publishing technology, there was no longer any such cause.
    • Electronic B2B services seem revolutionary, but in fact they are really nothing new.
    • Sounds awful touchy-feely, but sometimes the most revolutionary ideas are touchy-feely.
    • Can rap be reformed to become a truly revolutionary cultural movement?
    Synonyms
    thoroughgoing, thorough, complete, total, entire, absolute, utter, comprehensive, exhaustive, sweeping, far-reaching, wide-ranging, extensive, profound
    drastic, severe, serious, major, desperate, stringent, violent, forceful, rigorous, draconian
    new, novel, original, unusual, unfamiliar, unconventional, unorthodox, off-centre, different, fresh, imaginative, creative, innovative, innovatory, innovational, inventive, ingenious, modern, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art, advanced, avant-garde, futuristic, pioneering, groundbreaking, trailblazing, disruptive
    rare, unique, singular, unprecedented, uncommon
    experimental, untested, untried, unknown, surprising, strange, exotic, out of the ordinary, newfangled
    North American left-field
    rare unhackneyed, new-fashioned, neoteric
  • 2Engaged in or promoting political revolution.

    (从事或宣传)政治革命的

    the revolutionary army

    革命军。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wilson made his address primarily in response to the revolutionary upheaval in Russia.
    • Brion was by no means the only pundit predicting some form of revolutionary upheaval.
    • Even revolutionary politics may be articulated in terms of constitutional categories.
    • Both forces styled themselves as revolutionary armies on the Soviet model.
    • He became a revolutionary socialist when he was a young journalist working on Scotland's Daily Record.
    • Last but not least was the fact that the revolutionary movements were isolated internationally.
    • In fact, they were acting not as revolutionary socialists but as mere trade unionists.
    • The idea of embarking upon yet more revolutionary upheaval seemed anathema.
    • Calle San Sebastian still heaves, though the revolutionary fervour seems to have evaporated.
    • He warns that revolutionary struggle is difficult, but that winning is ‘the hardest of all’.
    • Later the revolutionary government concurred and the place was razed.
    • Radical coups introduce potentially revolutionary changes into society and place members of the armed forces into positions of unquestioned control.
    • A wave of revolutionary fervour swept across Europe affecting the Fife coalfields powerfully.
    • He became a political activist in the mid-1950s when revolutionary socialism faced a double challenge.
    • She finally leaves her family to join a revolutionary theatre group.
    • Epidemic smallpox surfaced first in Boston, that hotbed of revolutionary fervor.
    • Will new wars result or new revolutionary movements?
    • From the beginning of the wars he had been puzzling over the performance of the French revolutionary armies.
    • Two hundred years ago, revolutionary fervour burnt this church to the ground.
    • Within the class, only the ‘alienated’ worker is truly revolutionary.
    Synonyms
    rebellious, rebel, insurgent, rioting, mutinous, mutinying, renegade, insurrectionary, seditious, factious, insubordinate, subversive
    rabble-rousing, inflammatory, extremist, anarchic
    rare revolting, insurrectionist
    1. 2.1 Relating to a particular revolution, especially the War of American Independence.
      (与)特定革命(有关)的(尤指美国独立战争)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There was Lighthouse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum who lived on the corner of 93rd Street and Lexington Avenue.
      • The Dutch United Provinces supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
      • Basset hounds were known in the United States since Revolutionary times.
      • George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Paul Revere were among the prominent American Masons of the Revolutionary Era.
      • This takes into account the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Korean War and Vietnam.
      • On republicanism, consult Gordon Wood's ‘The Radicalism of the American Revolution; Richard Buel, Dear Liberty: Connecticut's Mobilization for the Revolutionary War.’
      • It is an excellent account of the critical Revolutionary War battle for New York.
      • But Hamilton was also a Revolutionary War hero, George Washington's chief of staff, an author of the Federalist Papers and a Treasury secretary who created many of the financial and economic systems that survive today.
      • The Creeks supported the British in the American Revolutionary War.
      • Named for Lenny Zakim, a local, beloved civil rights leader, and the nearby Bunker Hill Monument, which commemorates a Revolutionary War battle, the bridge incorporates elements of the monument in its design.
nounPlural revolutionaries rɛvəˈluːʃ(ə)n(ə)riˌrɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri
  • A person who advocates or engages in political revolution.

    革命者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Two thousand years ago, Christians were the modernizing force, the revolutionaries.
    • A Shia victory puts the prize in overtly enemy hands-the Iranian revolutionaries.
    • He was a revolutionary and like all successful revolutionaries he worked from within.
    • Together with other revolutionaries in Romania, they started writing poems.
    • I recently spoke to some old revolutionaries who are against President Jiang's proposal.
    • They like to believe that we're all revolutionaries living in the mountains, like Fidel and Che.
    • However, even if you can't pull a sickie, the armchair revolutionaries say you can still sabotage your company.
    • At a conference in Algiers, he had just denounced the Soviet Union for failing revolutionaries across the globe.
    • Ceasescu and his wife, Elena, were captured by the revolutionaries, tried and executed on Christmas Day.
    • The revolutionaries are the prophets and martyrs of social and political change.
    • It unites clerics and revolutionaries, monks and social reformers.
    • My class on the Revolutionary just studied Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
    • The rhetoric and actions of these wanna-be revolutionaries are interesting, though.
    • But like many e-commerce revolutionaries, McGuire has his finger in a number of pies.
    • Many are produced by revolutionaries who grew up not in Iran but in Europe and North America.
    • They would act like any revolutionary vanguard, as Lenin or indeed the French revolutionaries had imagined.
    • The revolutionaries thus occupied as much as created a political vacuum, which they sought to fill with a new order.
    • The acts of violence by these revolutionaries were countered by excesses committed by the police.
    • Among the young revolutionaries of St Petersburg Lenin was aptly known as ‘the Old Man’.
    • Quite how this fits in with the activists' description of themselves as Marxists or revolutionaries still eludes me.
    Synonyms
    rebel, insurgent, revolutionist, Bolshevik, mutineer, insurrectionary, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist
    freedom fighter, resistance fighter
    rare insurrectionist
    French rare frondeur

Rhymes

ablutionary, counter-revolutionary, devolutionary, elocutionary, evolutionary, substitutionary

Definition of revolutionary in US English:

revolutionary

adjectiveˌrevəˈlo͞oSHəˌnerēˌrɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri
  • 1Involving or causing a complete or dramatic change.

    革命性剧变的,大变革的

    a revolutionary new drug

    革命性新药。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Can rap be reformed to become a truly revolutionary cultural movement?
    • And the most revolutionary changes are taking place in the field of education.
    • Mr Carroll and his colleagues recently spoke of their work at a meeting in London and the revolutionary approach left a huge impression.
    • I think it's going to be quite revolutionary in the corporate world.
    • While a video might not seem revolutionary, the execution was.
    • Most farmers are really interested in innovation, but automatic milking might seem too revolutionary.
    • In fact, he thought, their hostility was often proof of the revolutionary nature of his ideas.
    • Sounds awful touchy-feely, but sometimes the most revolutionary ideas are touchy-feely.
    • Yoko Ltd manufactures a revolutionary bonnet which is designed to make life more comfortable for premature babies.
    • Through a revolutionary computer mock-up of the development potential tenants can now take a virtual tour of the building.
    • That appointment was revolutionary, for never in its more than one hundred years in St Lucia had a native son held the top job.
    • Why are you so convinced that his new work will be so revolutionary?
    • I'd heard that it was a science fiction classic, with revolutionary ideas about free love and community.
    • By focusing on the superficial, they missed what is truly revolutionary about the game.
    • They started painting outdoors, which itself was considered to be quite revolutionary.
    • Doctors in Britain are set to start trials of a revolutionary treatment for heart disease using stem cells, it emerged yesterday.
    • Later, after the move to London, the revolutionary changes in publishing technology, there was no longer any such cause.
    • Electronic B2B services seem revolutionary, but in fact they are really nothing new.
    • And they had a more revolutionary idea: They might help patients recover from relapses once they happened.
    • The reforms that started in 1991, are bringing in more and more revolutionary changes.
    Synonyms
    thoroughgoing, thorough, complete, total, entire, absolute, utter, comprehensive, exhaustive, sweeping, far-reaching, wide-ranging, extensive, profound
    new, novel, original, unusual, unfamiliar, unconventional, unorthodox, off-centre, different, fresh, imaginative, creative, innovative, innovatory, innovational, inventive, ingenious, modern, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art, advanced, avant-garde, futuristic, pioneering, groundbreaking, trailblazing, disruptive
  • 2Engaged in or promoting political revolution.

    (从事或宣传)政治革命的

    the revolutionary army

    革命军。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Later the revolutionary government concurred and the place was razed.
    • Both forces styled themselves as revolutionary armies on the Soviet model.
    • Within the class, only the ‘alienated’ worker is truly revolutionary.
    • Will new wars result or new revolutionary movements?
    • The idea of embarking upon yet more revolutionary upheaval seemed anathema.
    • From the beginning of the wars he had been puzzling over the performance of the French revolutionary armies.
    • He warns that revolutionary struggle is difficult, but that winning is ‘the hardest of all’.
    • He became a political activist in the mid-1950s when revolutionary socialism faced a double challenge.
    • He became a revolutionary socialist when he was a young journalist working on Scotland's Daily Record.
    • A wave of revolutionary fervour swept across Europe affecting the Fife coalfields powerfully.
    • In fact, they were acting not as revolutionary socialists but as mere trade unionists.
    • Even revolutionary politics may be articulated in terms of constitutional categories.
    • Calle San Sebastian still heaves, though the revolutionary fervour seems to have evaporated.
    • Two hundred years ago, revolutionary fervour burnt this church to the ground.
    • Brion was by no means the only pundit predicting some form of revolutionary upheaval.
    • Wilson made his address primarily in response to the revolutionary upheaval in Russia.
    • Epidemic smallpox surfaced first in Boston, that hotbed of revolutionary fervor.
    • Last but not least was the fact that the revolutionary movements were isolated internationally.
    • She finally leaves her family to join a revolutionary theatre group.
    • Radical coups introduce potentially revolutionary changes into society and place members of the armed forces into positions of unquestioned control.
    Synonyms
    rebellious, rebel, insurgent, rioting, mutinous, mutinying, renegade, insurrectionary, seditious, factious, insubordinate, subversive
    1. 2.1 Relating to the American Revolution.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Dutch United Provinces supported the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
      • But Hamilton was also a Revolutionary War hero, George Washington's chief of staff, an author of the Federalist Papers and a Treasury secretary who created many of the financial and economic systems that survive today.
      • Basset hounds were known in the United States since Revolutionary times.
      • This takes into account the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Korean War and Vietnam.
      • The Creeks supported the British in the American Revolutionary War.
      • There was Lighthouse Harry of Revolutionary fame and a Harry Appelbaum who lived on the corner of 93rd Street and Lexington Avenue.
      • On republicanism, consult Gordon Wood's ‘The Radicalism of the American Revolution; Richard Buel, Dear Liberty: Connecticut's Mobilization for the Revolutionary War.’
      • Named for Lenny Zakim, a local, beloved civil rights leader, and the nearby Bunker Hill Monument, which commemorates a Revolutionary War battle, the bridge incorporates elements of the monument in its design.
      • It is an excellent account of the critical Revolutionary War battle for New York.
      • George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Paul Revere were among the prominent American Masons of the Revolutionary Era.
nounˌrevəˈlo͞oSHəˌnerēˌrɛvəˈluʃəˌnɛri
  • A person who works for or engages in political revolution.

    革命者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Among the young revolutionaries of St Petersburg Lenin was aptly known as ‘the Old Man’.
    • Many are produced by revolutionaries who grew up not in Iran but in Europe and North America.
    • They would act like any revolutionary vanguard, as Lenin or indeed the French revolutionaries had imagined.
    • Together with other revolutionaries in Romania, they started writing poems.
    • Ceasescu and his wife, Elena, were captured by the revolutionaries, tried and executed on Christmas Day.
    • Quite how this fits in with the activists' description of themselves as Marxists or revolutionaries still eludes me.
    • A Shia victory puts the prize in overtly enemy hands-the Iranian revolutionaries.
    • At a conference in Algiers, he had just denounced the Soviet Union for failing revolutionaries across the globe.
    • I recently spoke to some old revolutionaries who are against President Jiang's proposal.
    • The rhetoric and actions of these wanna-be revolutionaries are interesting, though.
    • It unites clerics and revolutionaries, monks and social reformers.
    • Two thousand years ago, Christians were the modernizing force, the revolutionaries.
    • The acts of violence by these revolutionaries were countered by excesses committed by the police.
    • My class on the Revolutionary just studied Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
    • However, even if you can't pull a sickie, the armchair revolutionaries say you can still sabotage your company.
    • They like to believe that we're all revolutionaries living in the mountains, like Fidel and Che.
    • The revolutionaries are the prophets and martyrs of social and political change.
    • But like many e-commerce revolutionaries, McGuire has his finger in a number of pies.
    • The revolutionaries thus occupied as much as created a political vacuum, which they sought to fill with a new order.
    • He was a revolutionary and like all successful revolutionaries he worked from within.
    Synonyms
    rebel, insurgent, revolutionist, bolshevik, mutineer, insurrectionary, agitator, subversive, guerrilla, anarchist
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