McCarthyism是什么意思？

McCarthyism

英[məˈkɑ:θiɪzəm] 美[məˈkɑrθiɪzəm]

• n. 麦卡锡主义（指美国共和党参议员J.R.McCarthy于1951-1954年间发动的反共以及迫害民主进步力量的法西斯行经）；

例句

• I blamed him and his generation for everything from McCarthyism to the Vietnam War to Watergate. 我羞辱他以及他那一代人,从麦卡锡主义到越南战争,到水门事件.

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)