shibboleths是什么意思？

shibboleths

• n. （党派、集团等的）准则( shibboleth的名词复数 )，教条，用语，行话；

例句

• Before we scan the present landscape slaying a couple of shibboleths. 在我们审视当前格局之前,有必要先来破除两个落伍的观点.
• In the face of mass rioting, the old shibboleths were reduced to embarrassing emptiness. 在大规模暴乱面前, 这种陈词滥调变成了令人难堪的空话.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  过时的观点;陈旧的原则;错误的信念
  If you describe an idea or belief as a shibboleth, you mean that it is thought important by a group of people but may be old-fashioned or wrong.
  例句
  It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter. 是时候摆脱那些传统力量无法遏制的陈规陋习了。