liberal

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lib·e·ral1 /ˈlɪbərəl/ AWL adjectiveadj

1 STRICTwilling to understand and respect other people’s ideas, opinions, and feelings 思想开明的，开通的

a more liberal attitude towards sexuality

对两性关系比较开通的态度

I had quite liberal parents.

我的父母思想很开明。

2 PPsupporting or allowing gradual political and social changes (思想)开放的，支持[主张]变革的 OPP conservative

a more liberal policy on issues of crime and punishment

在罪与罚的问题上更加开明的政策

3 allowing people or organizations a lot of political or economic freedom 〔政治和经济上〕开明的，自由的

liberal state/society/democracy etc 政治开明的国家/社会/民主体制等

4 LOT/LARGE NUMBER OR AMOUNTgenerous or given in large amounts 慷慨的，大量给予的；丰富的，充足的

a liberal supply of drinks

饮料的充足供应

liberal with

If only they were as liberal with their cash.

要是他们花钱也一样大方就好了。

→ liberally

5 EXACTnot exact 不严格的，不拘泥字面的

a liberal interpretation of the original play

对原剧作的灵活诠释

6. liberal education SEa kind of education which encourages you to develop a large range of interests and knowledge and respect for other people’s opinions 通识教育，博雅教育

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liberal education• But Newman was right to warn of the utilitarian threat to liberal education.• Can society afford the luxury of providing young children with the beginnings of a liberal education?• There are vocational arguments for traditional liberal education.• He has received the advantage of a liberal education, and possesses a very extensive degree of legal knowledge.• But pure liberal education exists to civilise its beneficiaries rather than to fit them for employment.• The second thing that some universities do is provide liberal education for its own sake.

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liberal• My parents are broadminded, liberal and understanding to the extent that I probably could never match.• While the Cold War period was dominated by realism, liberal approaches continued to be developed.• Pius remained implacably opposed to the assumptions of liberal bourgeois civilization.• Some liberal Democrats want to introduce stricter price controls.• liberal immigration policies• a liberal interpretation of the original play• Last year, Working Assets distributed $ 2. 15 million to 36 liberal non-profits, as earmarked by individual customers.• I was fortunate enough to have very liberal parents.• Firmly distanced from the levers of power, the liberal parties were unable to carry conviction among their potential constituents.• In order to reveal these foundations we must therefore examine the main tenets of conservative and liberal political thought.• In the 1840s, President Herrera promoted a policy of gradual liberal reform in Mexico.• The Monopolies Commission took the line that the benefits of a more liberal regime outweighed any drawbacks.• In a liberal society you may have the right to express your own beliefs, but not necessarily to cause offence to other people.• If its people called you a liberal subversive in the pay of effete capitalist Western powers it was regarded as fair comment.• a liberal view of homosexuality• He has quite liberal views for someone of his generation.

liberal state/society/democracy etc• Britain is at a nadir in its history as a liberal democracy.• So came what I am calling the liberal state.• Synods were not like the parliaments of liberal democracies.• These rights to additional forms of participation and opposition in the political process seem an essential element of a liberal democracy.• In any liberal democracy a mobilization of bias is cumulatively created by the outcomes of political and social conflicts.• Yet in a liberal democracy, such a declaration can not easily be made; indeed the opposite must be proclaimed.• Classical elite theorists had sought to show that liberal democracy was a utopian ideal incapable of realization.

liberal interpretation• These conclusions have led revisionists to cast doubt on three of the assumptions underlying the liberal interpretation.• The middle classes According to the liberal interpretation, as we have seen, such liberalization was under way.• It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist, and merely adopted from him by the emperor.• The traditional liberal interpretation is rooted in an approach to history fundamentally at odds with that of Soviet historiography.• Yet the liberal interpretation of divorce laws appears to have led to the alarming trends already observed.• This, of course, relies on a liberal interpretation of the coins from Barton Farm.

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