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preconception

noun
🔊/ˌpriːkənˈsepʃn/
🔊/ˌpriːkənˈsepʃn/
 [countable, usually plural, uncountable]
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  1. an idea or opinion that is formed before you have enough information or experience事先形成的观念；先入之见；预想；成见 synonym assumption
    • a book that will challenge your preconceptions about rural life一本改变你对农村生活成见的书
    compare misconception
    Extra Examples
    • It is important to challenge society's preconceptions about disabled people.反对社会对残疾人抱有成见极为重要。
    • It's important that you come to this task with no preconceptions.重要的是，你承担这项任务之前不要有任何先入之见。
    • Most people have preconceptions about old age.大多数人对老年有成见。
    • The facts refused to fit my preconceptions.事实与我事先的想法不一致。
    • They like this approach because it fits in with their own preconceptions.他们喜欢这一方法，因为它与他们事先的想法一致。
    Topics Opinion and argumentc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + preconception
    • have
    • fit
    • fit in with
    • …
    preposition
    • with preconceptions
    • without preconceptions
    • preconception about
    • …
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