provincialism

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provincialism 排外主义，狭隘主义

来自provincial,地方的，排外的，-ism,主义，思想。

provincialism (n.): 1820 in the political sense, "local attachment as opposed to national unity," from provincial + -ism. Meaning "manners or modes of a certain province or of provinces generally" (as opposed to the big city or capital) is from 1836. Sense of "a local word or usage or expression" is from 1770.
PROVINCIALISM consists in:
(a) An ignorance of the manners, customs and nature of people living outside one's own village, parish, or nation.
(b) A desire to coerce others into uniformity.
[Ezra Pound, "Provincialism the Enemy," 1917]

1. He wanted to escape from the provincialism of the small university where he taught.: 他所执教是一所规模很小的大学,他想摆脱存在于其中的地方主义桎梏.

2. A . Quebec's resistance to a national agency is provincialism ideology.: 魁北克对全国性机构的抵制是偏狭的思维方式.

3. Three cups of Qinghuawu liquor conveys provincialism of all the life.: 三杯清华婺一世家乡情.

4. There are two theoretical tendencies of this philosophy provincialism and autonomism.: 国外生命科学哲学研究有两种主要的理论倾向,一是分支论,一是自主论.

5. But provincialism in educational research is, alas, nothing new.: 只不过教育研究中的地方主义也实在是屡见不鲜了吧!