conformist

英 [kənˈfɔːmɪst]

美 [kənˈfɔːrmɪst]

n.  顺从者; 随波逐流者; 循规蹈矩的人

复数：conformists　

GRE

BNC.22204 / COCA.26307

牛津词典

noun

• 顺从者；随波逐流者；循规蹈矩的人
  a person who behaves and thinks in the same way as most other people and who does not want to be different

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 墨守成规的;循规蹈矩的
  Someone who isconformistbehaves or thinks like everyone else rather than doing things that are original.
  1. He may have to become more conformist if he is to prosper again...
     要想再现辉煌，他可能得更多地依照习惯办事。
  2. Mr Gordon now feels forced into an ever more conformist way of running his practice.
     现在，戈登先生觉得被迫以一种更为守旧的方式经营自己的业务。
  3. Aconformistis someone who is conformist.
     墨守成规的人;循规蹈矩的人

英英释义

noun

• someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters)

adj

• marked by convention and conformity to customs or rules or styles
  1. underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist
• adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion)
  Synonym:conforming

双语例句

• But his conformist image and manner belie his break with strait-laced Japanese business conventions.
  不过，他墨守成规的形象与举止，其实掩饰了他对日本企业刻板传统的背弃。
• Mr Gordon now feels forced into an ever more conformist way of running his practice.
  现在，戈登先生觉得被迫以一种更为守旧的方式经营自己的业务。
• He may have to become more conformist if he is to prosper again
  要想再现辉煌，他可能得更多地依照习惯办事。
• Americans distrust the Japanese because they are everything the Americans are not: group-oriented, sexist, conformist, and ethnically monotonous.
  美国人不相信日本人，因为后者和他们截然不同：集体倾向、性别歧视、规规矩矩、种族单一。
• Deeply provincial and conformist; in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial; narrow provincial attitudes. Without such a unity, the highest art of any expert cannot help being utilitarian in the narrowest sense;
  非常狭隘、守旧；在那个受教育程度高的公司里我感觉自惭形秽；狭隘的地方观点。不统一，任何专门家的最高级的艺术也不免成为最狭隘的功利主义；
• If you read only the musings of political and economic commentators, you might have the impression that Japan is a depressed conformist country, populated almost entirely by pensioners and sumo wrestlers.
  如果你每天只读政经评论员的文章，那么你大概会有这样一种看法，即日本是一个因循守旧的萧条国家，几乎全民都是领取养老金的人和相扑手。
• It distinguished more hip African-Americans from their short-haired conformist counterparts.
  它把更为开放的非裔美国人和留着短发的保守非裔美国人区别开来。
• He wasn't trying to expose the spiritual poverty of a conformist culture;
  他并非要揭露墨守成规的文化背后面临的精神贫乏。
• It has been a longstanding concern that American individualist, who has fled from home and family leaving the values of community and public opinion behind, is secretly a conformist.
  长期以来就有这样一种担心：美国个人主义者虽然逃离了家庭，把社会和传统价值抛在身后，但他内心深处却是个唯从主义者。
• She's too much of a conformist to wear silly clothes.
  她很古板，不穿那些奇装异服。