mentality

英 [menˈtæləti]

美 [menˈtæləti]

n.  心态; 思想状况; 思想方法

复数：mentalities　

IELTSTEM8医学

Collins.1 / BNC.9710 / COCA.6544

牛津词典

noun

• 心态；思想状况；思想方法
  the particular attitude or way of thinking of a person or group
  1. I cannot understand the mentality of football hooligans.
     我无法理解足球流氓的心态。
  2. a criminal/ghetto mentality
     犯罪心态；种族聚居区的思想意识

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 心态;思维方式
  Yourmentalityis your attitudes and your way of thinking.
  1. ...a criminal mentality...
     犯罪心态
  2. Running a business requires a very different mentality from being a salaried employee.
     经营企业所要求具备的心态和上班族的心态截然不同。

英英释义

noun

• mental ability
  1. he's got plenty of brains but no common sense
  Synonym:brainbrainpowerlearning abilitymental capacitywit
• a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
  Synonym:outlookmindsetmind-set

双语例句

• The wordless enlightenment of the art shaped the ethnic cultural mentality and kept the folks'creating and regenerative endogenetic drive.
  其无言的教化塑造了民族的文化心理，并使民族保持了创造与更新的内源性动力。
• The majority have a built-in Luddite mentality; they are resistant to change.
  大部分人天生有种反对技术进步的心理。他们抗拒变革。
• This policy certainly engendered a defensive mentality.
  这种政策确实造成了一种防御心理。
• He has many years'experience of the criminal mentality.
  他有多年研究犯罪心理的经验。
• You are the most important is to maintain a good mentality and good eating habits.
  你现最主要的是保持好的心态和良好的饮食生活习惯。
• He had a petit bourgeois mentality.
  他有小资产阶级思想。
• Our consciousness and mentality creates our world.
  我们的意识、心态决定了我们的世界。
• Actually, the living habit of them reflects their mentality from this special perspective.
  古代文人的有关生活习性，其实也从一个特殊侧面反映了他们的心态。
• The selection and mentality of people continue to be positive and negative, and this
  人的选择和心态也不断地被肯定和否定，而这也
• It is just in such ordinary mentality and ordinary things the true meaning of life emerge.
  正是在这种平常心和平常事物中，见出了人生之真谛。