Word familynounradicalradicalismRadicalismradicalityradicalizationradicalnessradicandradicationradicelradicleradiculeadjectiveradicalradicantradicateradicatedradicelloseradicicolousradiciformradicivorousradicularradiculoseverbradicalizeadverbradically
radical changes• Some politicians are raising more radical changes.• That may be so, but when I first knew them there had been radical changes.• The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence.• In the next decade, microcomputers will stimulateradical changes in every part of the educational system.• The widening of educational opportunity in the immediatepost-war period was not accompanied by radical changes in its content.• This is likely to lead to radical changes in the committee's procedures, which could be implemented next year.• These new ideas demandradical changes in the design of the entire business process.• Before we make any radical changes such as doing away with jurytrials, should we not think very carefully indeed?
VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, seem, sound極端;好像激進;聽起來極端▸➤become變得激進ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常激進▸➤increasingly日益激進➤equally同樣激進➤insufficiently不夠激進▸➤genuinely, truly真正激進;確實極端◇a truly radical concept確實激進的觀念➤potentially可能極端▸➤politically, socially政治上激進;社會生活方式極端◇When I was young, I was more politically radical.我年輕時在政治上更為激進。
radical ♦︎ revolutionary ♦︎ progressive ♦︎ extremeThese words all describe ideas and views that are very new and/or different, especially in politics.這些詞均表示觀點或見解全新的、颠覆傳統的、激進的,尤其在政治方面。SYNONYM SCALE 詞義標尺下圖顯示這些詞所表達激進的程度
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PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS 句型和搭配◆radical / revolutionary / progressive / extreme ideas / views◆radical / revolutionary proposals / solutions◆a radical / revolutionary leader■radical ˈrædɪkl [usually before noun](of ideas) new, different, and likely to have a great effect; (of people or their opinions) in favour of thorough and complete political or social change(觀念)全新的,有創見的;(人或其觀點在針對政治或社會變化方面)激進的,極端的◆He proposed a radical solution to the problem.他提出了一個解決問題的全新方法。◆the radical wing of the party黨内的激進派◆radical politicians / students / writers激進的政治人物/學生/作家OPPconservative ⇨ conservative see also radical ⇨ fundamental■revolutionary ˌrevəˈluːʃənəri; NAmEˌrevəˈluːʃəneriinvolving a great or complete change; connected with political revolution徹底變革的;巨變的;革命的◆It was a time of rapid and revolutionary change.那是一個迅猛、劇烈的變革時期。◆At the time this idea was revolutionary.這個想法在當時創意非凡。◆revolutionary uprisings革命起義 see also revolution ⇨ revolution1, revolutionary ⇨ guerrillanoun■progressiveprəˈgresɪv (usuallyapproving) in favour of new ideas, modern methods and change進步的;先進的;開明的◆progressive schools開明的學校◆Are you in favour of progressive teaching methods?你贊成新式教學方法嗎?OPPconservative ⇨ conservative see also progress ⇨ progress■extreme (usuallydisapproving) (of people, political organizations or opinions) far from what most people consider to be normal, reasonable or acceptable(人、政治組織或觀點)極端的,偏激的,過分的◆extreme left-wing / right-wing views極左/極右觀點OPPmoderate ⇨ disciplined▸extremism
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[uncountable] ◆political / religious extremism政治/宗教極端主義