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单词 counterculture
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Definition of counterculture in English:

counterculture

nounˈkaʊntəkʌltʃəˈkaʊn(t)ərˌkəltʃər
  • A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.

    反正统文化的生活方式(或态度)

    the idealists of the 60s counterculture

    60年代反正统文化的理想主义者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Virginia Woolf's granddaughter, speaking at the Hay-On-Wye Literary festival, celebrates the triumph of the counterculture in Britain.
    • In many ways, most of a counterculture's impact is limited to style.
    • Still, there are jarring moments, such as the author's assessment of the effect on the counterculture of the expansion of America's war in Vietnam.
    • Over the past two decades Almodóvar has moved from the counterculture to the mainstream.
    • Anyone who is now going to be elected president has probably lived through the drug counterculture and the sexual revolution.
    • Your political legacy, alas, will live long - but so will the vital counterculture you have spawned.
    • And they have all declared years ago that Bukowski's poetry was no longer part of the counterculture.
    • They're often astonished that they can meet someone who has influenced the bands that introduced them to the counterculture.
    • The counterculture isn't dead but it needs some institutions to keep it alive.
    • This counterculture is not a handful of people living very different lives.
    • It should appeal to readers interested in social issues, psychology and the counterculture.
    • In general, anarchism plays a big role in American radical politics and countercultures.
    • As the great musical icon of the Sixties counterculture, Dylan has always been expected to live up to higher moral standards than the average rocker.
    • Right now the counterculture's online and mainstream culture's in space.
    • What was your relationship with the counterculture like?
    • Even the counterculture and college saturnalias of the late 1960s did not corrupt my habits.
    • You're all young enough to have missed the counterculture of the 1960s.
    • Bjork occupies a rare position as both a mainstream pop icon and a major force in the counterculture.
    • But where, in this fertile mess of war and unaccountability, is the raging counterculture to be found?
    • The point of the various musical countercultures under the Soviets was not simply to hear music.

Derivatives

  • countercultural

  • adjective
    • It's folksy, romantic and feminine, but with a countercultural edge to it, too.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The word was first used by disillusioned American Democrats in the 1970s, when they rebelled against the countercultural leftists who had taken over their party.
      • From the 1960s onward, Trocchi became a countercultural media figure rather than a writer.
      • Any allegedly countercultural activity eventually comes full circle and the early adopters say ‘it's not how it used to be.’
      • She drifted around the countercultural communities at Newbury, where she spent four months, and Faslane, where she joined the peace camp.

Definition of counterculture in US English:

counterculture

nounˈkaʊn(t)ərˌkəltʃərˈkoun(t)ərˌkəlCHər
  • A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.

    反正统文化的生活方式(或态度)

    the idealists of the 60s counterculture

    60年代反正统文化的理想主义者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You're all young enough to have missed the counterculture of the 1960s.
    • Anyone who is now going to be elected president has probably lived through the drug counterculture and the sexual revolution.
    • It should appeal to readers interested in social issues, psychology and the counterculture.
    • As the great musical icon of the Sixties counterculture, Dylan has always been expected to live up to higher moral standards than the average rocker.
    • This counterculture is not a handful of people living very different lives.
    • In many ways, most of a counterculture's impact is limited to style.
    • The counterculture isn't dead but it needs some institutions to keep it alive.
    • They're often astonished that they can meet someone who has influenced the bands that introduced them to the counterculture.
    • And they have all declared years ago that Bukowski's poetry was no longer part of the counterculture.
    • Over the past two decades Almodóvar has moved from the counterculture to the mainstream.
    • Right now the counterculture's online and mainstream culture's in space.
    • Virginia Woolf's granddaughter, speaking at the Hay-On-Wye Literary festival, celebrates the triumph of the counterculture in Britain.
    • Even the counterculture and college saturnalias of the late 1960s did not corrupt my habits.
    • In general, anarchism plays a big role in American radical politics and countercultures.
    • The point of the various musical countercultures under the Soviets was not simply to hear music.
    • Still, there are jarring moments, such as the author's assessment of the effect on the counterculture of the expansion of America's war in Vietnam.
    • Bjork occupies a rare position as both a mainstream pop icon and a major force in the counterculture.
    • Your political legacy, alas, will live long - but so will the vital counterculture you have spawned.
    • What was your relationship with the counterculture like?
    • But where, in this fertile mess of war and unaccountability, is the raging counterculture to be found?
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