revisionist
noun [ C ] uk/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən.ɪst/ us/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən.ɪst/
修正主义者
someone who examines and tries to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or meaning is
revisionists within the Communist Party 共产党内的修正派
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- Some revisionists argue the inscription could be read as a place-name.
- But revisionists contend that most of those battles were his to lose, given the technical superiority of the army he commanded.
- UK Throughout my political life, I have been a Labour revisionist or, as it is now called, a moderniser.
- The revisionists embraced the primacy of socioeconomic forces in the 1970s and 1980s just as their reductionist dangers were becoming clear in the study of Western revolutions.
revisionist
adjective uk/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən.ɪst/ us/rɪˈvɪʒ.ən.ɪst/
修正主义者
examining and trying to change existing beliefs about how events happened or what their importance or meaning is
revisionist historians 修正主义历史学家
revisionist biographies of Soviet leaders 苏联领导人的修正主义传记
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- Although advertised as revisionist, the book is not significantly re-interpretive.
- The phenomenon is cheered by Reaganites as an overdue tribute, though some academics see it as revisionist history taking its course.
- This book is not revisionist. Instead, it's a fascinating recycling.
- Like-minded academics and journalists have pushed forward a revisionist view of Japan's wartime history.