| 词汇 | reverse discrimination |
| 释义 | reverse discriminationWord family nounreversalreverserreversireversibilityreversingreversionreversionerreversisreverse discriminationreverse engineeringreverse gearreversing lightadjectivereversedreverselessreversiblereversionalreversionaryadverbreversedlyreverselyreversiblyreversionallyverbreverse reˌverse discrimiˈnation noun [uncountableU] SARthe practice of giving unfair treatment to a group of people who usually have advantages, in order to be fair to the group of people who were unfairly treated in the past 逆向歧视〔为了公平对待过去受歧视的团体而以不公平的方式对待通常占优势的团体〕 → positive discrimination Examples from the Corpus reverse discrimination• The fact is that both the benefits of affirmative action and the white-male fears of reverse discrimination have been exaggerated.• At this point the debate over the civil rights bill merged into a wider national debate concerning the legitimacy of reverse discrimination.• There are a number of legal formulae by which any suggestion of reverse discrimination is ruled out.• Thomas was renowned as a vigorous opponent of affirmative action or reverse discrimination, espousing minority self-help rather than racial quotas.• She does think it is sometimes reverse discrimination but wonders how else people will move up. |
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