Lipset 4 Flashcards
pernicious
zararlı, tehlikeli
“American values are quite complex, particularly because of paradoxes within our culture that permit pernicious and beneficial social phenomena to arise simultaneously from the same basic beliefs.”
larceny
hırsızlık
“Between 1960 and 1992, homicides per 100,000 of the American population rose from 5.1 to 10.5, while larcenies increased from 1,726 to 3,103 per 100,000”
refurbishment
yenilemek, renovate
litigation
the process of taking legal action
indolence
tembellik, uyuşukluk, üşengeçlik
“a decline in morality is a cause of economic stagnation due to individual failings such as indolence, but it is also an effect of recession because people who do not work become morally depraved.”
deprave
ayartmak, baştan çıkarmak, ahlakını bozmak
“a decline in morality is a cause of economic stagnation due to individual failings such as indolence, but it is also an effect of recession because people who do not work become morally depraved.”
bear out
doğrulamak, onaylamak, tasdik etmek
“The historical record bears out this observation.”
temperance
alkol karşıtı olma, ölçülü olma, içki içmeme
“This pattern and the consequent social ills accompanying it eventually encouraged the temperance movement”
recreational
eğlence, dinlence
beckon
el etmek, el/baş işareti ile çağırmak
voluminous
çok miktarda, muazzam
promiscuity
hafifmeşreplik, önüne gelenle yatma, rasgele cinsi münasebet
“These include rising crime rates, increased drug use, the dissolution of the traditional family, sexual promiscuity, and excessive litigiousness.”