Big Brother
短语老大哥
词形变化
别名
释义与例句
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1.
Unwarranted, invasive, and discreet surveillance, especially of a people by its government.
Some people are worried about marketing calls at dinnertime or junk mail or spam, while others are more concerned about Big Brother.
When one mentions the concepts of identity and governance in the same breath, a virtually autonomic response from many is the concern that a governmental big brother will soon be looking over their shoulders.
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2.
Any omnipresent authority or figurehead representing oppressive control.
老大哥
Holonym: the System
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the height of public concern over the emergence of a Big Brother society, privacy activism shared features in common with some of the hard-line environmental campaigns of the 1990s.
When the agencies of the federal government spied on the political activities of US citizens, they moved into the grey area between concern with national security and a Big Brother system that violated constitutional protections.
词汇关系
词源
After the nominal leader of Oceania in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
来源：wiktionary