capitalism

名词 n.
/ˈkapɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/|/kəˈpɪt(ə)lɪz(ə)m/    /ˈkæp.ə.təlˌɪzm̩/|/-ˌɪz.əm/|/ˌkæp.təl-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources, and capital and their exploitation for profit. countable,uncountable
    — What this war has demonstrated is that private capitalism—that is, an economic system in which land, factories, mines and transport are owned privately and operated solely for profit—does not work. It cannot deliver the goods. This fact had been known to millions of people for years past, but nothing ever came of it, because there was no real urge from below to alter the system, and those at the top had trained themselves to be impenetrably stupid on just this point. Argument and propaganda got one nowhere. The lords of property simply sat on their bottoms and proclaimed that all was for the best. Hitler's conquest of Europe, however, was a physical debunking of capitalism. War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the penny, and there is no way of faking the result.
  2. A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources, and capital and their exploitation for profit.; An economic system based on private control of the means of production and the exploitation of labour by capital. Marxism,countable,uncountable
  3. A socio-economic system based on private ownership of resources, and capital and their exploitation for profit.; An economic system based on private property and the abstraction of resources into the form of privately owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state. countable,uncountable

词形变化

capitalisms plural

词源

Borrowed from French capitalisme (“the condition of one who is rich”); equivalent to capital + -ism. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. First used in English by novelist William Thackeray in The Newcomes [1854-1855].
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