liberal的意思|liberal的解释-里氏词典

liberal ['libәrәl]

n. 自由主义者

a. 慷慨的, 不拘泥的, 宽大的, 自由主义的

[法] 自由主义的, 宽大的, 慷慨的

liberal

[ noun ]

a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

<noun.person>

a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

<noun.person>

[ adj ]

tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition

<adj.all>

showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

<adj.all>

a broad political stance

generous and broad sympathies

a liberal newspaper

tolerant of his opponent's opinions

having political or social views favoring reform and progress

<adj.all>

given or giving freely

<adj.all>

was a big tipper

the bounteous goodness of God

bountiful compliments

a freehanded host

a handsome allowance

Saturday's child is loving and giving

a liberal backer of the arts

a munificent gift

her fond and openhanded grandfather

not literal

<adj.all>

a loose interpretation of what she had been told

a free translation of the poem

Liberal \Lib"er*al\ (l[i^]b"[~e]r*al), a. [F. lib['e]ral, L.
liberalis, from liber free; perh. akin to libet, lubet, it
pleases, E. lief. Cf. {Deliver}.]
1. Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman;
refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean;
as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or
studies. `` Liberal education.'' --Macaulay. `` A liberal
tongue.'' --Shak.

2. Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman;
generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver. ``
Liberal of praise.'' --Bacon.

Infinitely good, and of his good
As liberal and free as infinite. --Milton.

3. Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient;
abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a
liberal discharge of matter or of water.

His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower. --Shak.

4. Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the
literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a
classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.

5. Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in
spirit; catholic.

6. Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint;
licentious. `` Most like a liberal villain.'' --Shak.

7. Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in
political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion;
not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the
constitution or administration of government; having
tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished
from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal
thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.

I confess I see nothing liberal in this `` order of
thoughts,'' as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it.
--Hazlitt.

Note: Liberal has of, sometimes with, before the thing
bestowed, in before a word signifying action, and to
before a person or object on which anything is
bestowed; as, to be liberal of praise or censure;
liberal with money; liberal in giving; liberal to the
poor.

{The liberal arts}. See under {Art}.

{Liberal education}, education that enlarges and disciplines
the mind and makes it master of its own powers,
irrespective of the particular business or profession one
may follow.

Syn: Generous; bountiful; munificent; beneficent; ample;
large; profuse; free.

Usage: {Liberal}, {Generous}. Liberal is freeborn, and
generous is highborn. The former is opposed to the
ordinary feelings of a servile state, and implies
largeness of spirit in giving, judging, acting, etc.
The latter expresses that nobleness of soul which is
peculiarly appropriate to those of high rank, -- a
spirit that goes out of self, and finds its enjoyment
in consulting the feelings and happiness of others.
Generosity is measured by the extent of the sacrifices
it makes; liberality, by the warmth of feeling which
it manifests.

Liberal \Lib"er*al\, n.
One who favors greater freedom in political or religious
matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer;
in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so
called. Cf. {Whig}.

During the last meeting, the Sandinistas presented their most liberal proposal.
Bork said that if the Dukakis is elected to the White House, "the judges will effectively be chosen by Edward Kennedy," the liberal Massachusetts senator who is a ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.
"SDI is destined to be no more than a research program," said John Steinbruner, director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, a liberal think tank.
But the liberal Free Democrats, junior partner in the centre-right government, said they remained unhappy about a new income tax surcharge and would not be rushed into an early coalition deal.
"Don't play recession roulette with the liberal governor of Massachusetts," and said.
Although she is the product of the most liberal of Western schooling, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto still covers her head in public and never shakes hands with men _ in keeping with Islamic fundamentalism.
The group immediately turned over the potentially explosive information to the office of Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, the liberal Ohio Democrat who was most likely to oppose the nominee in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Our liberal friends have been at war with America's middle class for years.
I was usually on the sparsely populated liberal side of the internal debates surrounding these cases, and during the brief period when our government service overlapped, I usually found that Judge Bork was my ally.
The controls on cooperatives appeared relatively liberal when first introduced.
Mathias, who retired from the Senate last year, was considered one of the most liberal Republicans during his 18 years as a senator.
The group, which advocates primarily liberal causes, counts suburbanites and blue-collar workers among its 1.5 million members in 24 states.
Now he has to sort it out with skeptics, with Democrats who see him as the wrong representative to choose after a presidential election in which the L word _ liberal _ was used by Republicans as a political curse.
Senators representing the liberal plantation must see a conservative black as the very definition of a strange lifestyle.
In addition, the liberal churches can no longer, as they once could, count on the social mobility factor for new members.
Flight through Hungary began after its liberal communist regime decided in May to remove barbed wire and other barriers from the border with Austria.
Liberal outrage over such issues has much less to do with race than with the knowledge that polls show both blacks and whites reject the liberal orthodoxy on criminal justice and affirmative action.
If there can be a successor to Evelyn Waugh, with a liberal dose of JR Ackerley, Carr might be it. He is now 80. Averaging one novel a decade might seem slow work.
They had tried to lay flowers in Wenceslas Square to honor Jan Palach, a 20-year-old student who burned himself alive 20 years ago to protest the Soviet-led invasion that ended the liberal "Prague Spring" in August 1968.
Yugoslavia's two most liberal republics hold elections Sunday whose results could jeopardize the country's fragile federation.
Gantt, whose supporters hoped to enshrine him as the first black elected to the Senate from the South since Reconstruction, ran as an unabashed liberal and attacked what he called Helms' lying and distortion.
Mohorita said there would have to be a "new attitude toward former leaders," but he did not say if that referred to Dubcek or hard-liners who took charge after the liberal leadership was ousted.
Conservatives who rose to prominence in the political climate of the 1980s "saw universities as liberal strongholds populated by cocksure, opinionated professors," Bok wrote in the 40-page report.
"The federal government was being put on a diet while the Defense Department was raiding the refrigerator," says Alan Blinder, a liberal economist at Princeton.
Others note an absence of widespread religious opposition; though the Catholic hierarchy opposes euthanasia, many Dutch Catholics are independent-minded and, like Dutch Protestants, tend to take a liberal view.
Scholars agree that Brennan's departure means more than a loss of a key liberal vote.
GOP campaign spokesmen said the Democrats are just trying to cloak their liberal intentions.
Jewish extremists taking the name of biblical assassins have stepped out of the shadows, waging arson attacks on liberal Jews and claiming the machine gun slaying of an Arab.
He also is supporting a liberal Democratic proposal to ban nuclear tests.
Vinich spent thousands of dollars on commercials designed to combat his liberal image.

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