Gradgrind

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who relies solely on scientific measurements and observable facts without taking human nature into consideration.
    — They do just what all the practical men of this practical age are doing, what even the Gradgrinds are doing: they embody ideas; they put thoughts into facts.

词形变化

Gradgrinds plural

词源

From Thomas Gradgrind, a pedantic teacher in Charles Dickens' Hard Times (1854).
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