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单词 subvert
释义
subvert
verb[T]
formal
uk
/səbˈvɜːt/us
/səbˈvɝːt/
totrytodestroyordamagesomething,especiallyanestablishedpoliticalsystem:
破坏，动摇，颠覆（尤指现有的政治体制）
Therebelarmyisattemptingto subvert thegovernment.叛军试图推翻政府。
Ourbestintentionsare sometimes subverted byournaturaltendencytoselfishness.我们的良好意图有时会被自私的本性所破坏。
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(Definition ofsubvertfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubvert

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The enthusiastic accumulation by fans of an unending suite of related images both echoes and subverts the mass mechanical reproduction of the modern celebrity image.
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In this manner, the use of an alien aesthetic functions analogously to a camp aesthetic that subverts claim to artistic privilege or autonomy.
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However, during other episodes or parts thereof the performers intentionally subverted the 'seriousness and compulsion for precision', as though to ridicule or laugh at themselves.
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Each had been ' subverted ' by the corrosive spread of irreligious philosophies within its elites.
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The veil of ignorance is a useful theoretical tool because bias toward oneself can potentiallysubvertunderstanding of social justice.
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Covert channels such as power consumptionsubvertthe assumptions on which high level abstractions are based.
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What should finally be stressed though is that our historically reflexive awareness of psychoanalysis is a major factor in subverting its totalizing aspirations.
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Thus, the lack of control associated with religious virtue fails tosubvertit as does lack of control in the case of moral virtue.
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Institutions and individuals cansubvert, ignore, or flout the best-intended laws.
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It is not new for an artist tosubvertthe meaning of familiar objects or to challenge our interpretations of imagery.
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Those whichsubvertstrategies of essentialism can be understood in the interstices of ' ' historical, social and material realities.
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However, according to one view, this basic configuration can be subverted in order to accommodate neutralisation.
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The negative, apophatic approach can be seen either as subverting itself, or as being restricted to certain properties, or as resting on a self-excluding principle.
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These cultural differences are problematic for principlist theories of global or international bioethics because theysubvertclaims of convergence - "all" do not agree.
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But this wouldsubverthis bourgeois standpoint in general, and especially his position as the defender of absolutism.
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