cargo cult

短语

[医]货物崇拜

词形变化

cargo cults 复数 cargo cults

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of several religious movements among the people of Melanesia that anticipate the arrival of material cargo or cultural restoration, typically through the ritual imitation of the activities of colonial or technological cultures.

  2. 2.

    Any of several philosophies, practices or pseudosciences that are not rooted in experiment, often characterized by an unreflected and ritualistic approach.

    定语 比喻

    cargo cult science

    cargo cult software engineering

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

cult cultus

词源

From cargo (“Western material goods”) + cult. First used in print by N. M. Bird in an article in 1945.

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