parochial

单词parochial

基本解释

adj.: 教区的；堂区的；只关心本地区的；地方观念的
网络: 地方性的；狭隘的；思想狭隘的

权威解释

• 教区的；堂区的:

  connected with a church parish

• 只关心本地区的；地方观念的:

  only concerned with small issues that happen in your local area and not interested in more important things

英汉解释

• 教区的

• 狭隘的,心地偏狭

• 镇村的;地方性的;狭隘的,偏狭的

同义词

adj.narrownarrow-mindedclosed-mindedprovincialinsular

反义词

adj.broad-minded

例句

• I hope that this unfortunate little circumstance will not deprived me of my parochial office?

  我希望这一不幸的小节不至于导致我被革去在教区担任的的职务。

• He had a pretty low-wage job. He was supporting his wife and a child, and the child was going to parochial school.

  他有一份很低薪的工作，得养活妻子和一个孩子，孩子将要上教区学校。

• "It"s fairly dramatic -- he"s trying to change the face of global philanthropy, but it started in a fairly parochial way. "

  “这相当富有戏剧性——他在试着改变全球的慈善面貌，虽然一开始是以一种相当狭隘的方式。”

• In the absence of a clear-cut direction, each agency developed its own options geared to its own more or less parochial concerns.

  既然没有一个明确的指导，每个单位就各自拟定出或多或少局限自己眼光的选择方案。

• A snowstorm like this is bad enough to make people parochial and aggrieved, but not disastrous enough to make them generous and heroic.

  像这样的暴风雪天气只能让人们恼怒，却不足以使他们因灾难来临而富有慷慨救助之气。

• Arbour warned delegates to the U. N. Human Rights Council against pursuing narrow parochial political agendas .

  阿尔布尔警告联合国人权理事会的代表们说，不要寻求狭隘的政治目标。

• The coming week also offers investors a more parochial but nonetheless potentially significant event -- Britain"s spending review.

  未来一周投资者亦将关注英国的支出检视。

• The focus on the welfare of their own people may strike western minds as parochial but it has very deep roots in Chinese culture.

  他们所关注的福利民生其狭隘程度也许会让西方人感到吃惊，但是，这种关注却深深植根于中国文化。

• If it"s a private or parochial school, some schools follow IDEA completely, others don"t.

  如果它是私立或者牧区的，一些学校完全服从IDEA，其他的就不是这样。

• An EU without Britain would be more parochial and less liberal. An EU without the euro might not exist at all.

  离开了英国，欧盟会变得更闭塞，不那么自由；但失去了欧元的欧盟根本就不可能继续存在下去。