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外刊例句
- He accuses outsiders of hypocrisy—did rich countries not fell their own forests?—and, sometimes, of using environmental dogma as a pretext to keep Brazil poor.
他指斥外人虚伪——富国就不砍伐森林了吗？有时他也指责他们用环境教条作借口让巴西陷于穷困。
——《经济学人》 - Zero-sum thinking is surging on the left as well. A generation of college students has been raised on the dogma that life is a contest between groups — oppressor versus oppressed, colonizers versus colonized.
零和思维也在左派中兴起。一代大学生从小就信奉这样一种教条，即生活是群体之间的较量——压迫者与被压迫者、殖民者与被殖民者之间。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true
[名词] 由权威制定的一项或一套不容置疑地正确的原则
深入解读
Dogma 是一个与小站（微信公众号：田间小站）推送过 enigma 有着相同结尾的单词，两者可以一并联想记忆。
从词源上来看，该词源自希腊语 dogma （意见、信条），最早于17世纪经拉丁语 dogma （哲学信条）进入英语，也是用来表示“信条、教义、教理、教条”，侧重指由权威制定的一项或一套不容置疑地正确的原则，往往不是以合理和值得接受的方式提出的，而是以规定为真且不许置辩的方式提出的，常意味着对权威或其过分要求的坚持，有时甚至是傲慢的坚持。比如：
- 他们的政治信条让他们看不到国家真正的灾难。
Their political dogma has blinded them to their country's real woes.
权威用例
坚持和发展马克思主义，必须同中国具体实际相结合。我们坚持以马克思主义为指导，是要运用其科学的世界观和方法论解决中国的问题，而不是要背诵和重复其具体结论和词句，更不能把马克思主义当成一成不变的教条。
To uphold and develop Marxism, we must integrate it with China’s specific realities. Taking Marxism as our guide means applying its worldview and methodology to solving problems in China; it does not mean memorizing and reciting its specific conclusions and lines, and still less does it mean treating it as a rigid dogma.
同近义词
- doctrine: a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group
- creed: a system of Christian or other religious belief
- tenet: a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy
