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n. 信条, 教义, 宗旨, 原则



    tenet
    [ noun ]
    a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
    <noun.communication>


    Tenet \Ten"et\, n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See
    {Tenable}.]
    Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a
    person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or
    of Cicero.

    That al animals of the land are in their kind in the
    sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. --Sir T.
    Browne.

    The religious tenets of his family he had early
    renounced with contempt. --Macaulay.

    Syn: Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See
    {Dogma}.

    1. That tenet now seems subject to revision to fit the federal deficit crunch.
    2. 'The fundamental tenet now should be that, rather than the security value of the property.'
    3. For all their rhetoric, however, the Republicans are finding that the political opportunity they see in the educational issue is blunted by a fundamental tenet of conservatism: the principle of local control of the schools.
    4. There are in all more than a billion followers of Islam (the word means "submission"), a religion whose most basic tenet is chanted by believers five times a day: "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger."
    5. But there is still a strong sentiment among U.S. patent attorneys against giving up the first-to-invent tenet.
    6. "This is a message of contempt for human life, of making a difference between one type of life and another, and it violates the basic tenet of equality before the law," said Yitzhak Zamir, a former attorney general.
    7. The financiers calling on Mr Zaragoza appear to have similar ideas. Building the new motorways requires the government to abandon a key tenet in its approach to road transport.
    8. Kapustin recommended abandoning the communist tenet that capitalism will inevitably decay.
    9. But keeping an ocean patrol is a central tenet of UK deterrence policy.
    10. Mr. Corbin and Mrs. Mofford contend that the fund, created from receipts from Mr. Mecham's January 1987 inaugural ball, is state money, and that also was a major tenet of the prosecution's case during the impeachment trial.
    11. Researchers have made the startling discovery that some chemical messages sent by genes are changed before they arrive at their destinations, a finding that challenges a central tenet of genetics.
    12. That view flies in the face of a major economic tenet advanced by Keynes, who argued that cutting government spending and increasing taxes is the wrong thing to do in economic hard times.
    13. Richard F. Rosser, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, said his organization was the main proponent of efforts that failed in the House to add a so-called religious tenet amendment to the bill.
    14. Such views are rank heresy to his academic colleagues in the economics profession, who agree on few things other than the tenet that trade barriers almost always do more harm than good.
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