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be + a + dissident
名词用法，指持不同政见者，可数名词；复数形式为 dissidents。
He was a dissident in his youth.
他年轻时是一名持不同政见者。
持不同政见者；意见不同的人
dissidents — plural of dissident
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持不同政见者；意见不同的人
a person who disagrees with an established policy
He was a dissident in his youth.
他年轻时是一名持不同政见者。
公开反对现行政治体制、执政集团、执政集团政策或现行法律的人。
A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
反对某些既定政策的人
a person who dissents from some established policy
持异议者；反对者；脱离国教者。
One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
The writer became a well-known dissident in the 1980s.
这位作家在20世纪80年代成为了著名的持不同政见者。
Police arrested several dissidents after the protest.
抗议活动后，警方逮捕了几名持不同政见者。
Many dissidents left the country to avoid persecution.
许多持不同政见者离开祖国以避免迫害。
名词用法，指持不同政见者，可数名词；复数形式为 dissidents。
He was a dissident in his youth.
他年轻时是一名持不同政见者。
形容词用法，常置于名词前作定语。
Dissident artists were banned from exhibiting.
持不同政见的艺术家被禁止展出作品。
Not this
He is dissident against the government's decision.
Use this
He is a dissident against the government's decision.
dissident 作名词表示“持不同政见者”时是可数名词，前面要加冠词 a；作形容词时通常只作定语（如 a dissident writer），不用于“be dissident against”这种系表结构。改正后加上 a，意思变为“他是持不同政见者”，更自然。
Not this
The government has jailed many dissident.
Use this
The government has jailed many dissidents.
dissident 是可数名词，复数是 dissidents。many 后面必须用复数形式；中文名词没有复数变化，所以容易漏掉 -s。改正后加 -s，表“被监禁的许多持不同政见者”。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
政治异见人士
The political dissident was released after years in prison.
这位政治异见人士在狱中多年后获释。
持不同政见的团体
The dissident group called for free elections.
这个持不同政见的团体呼吁进行自由选举。
异见声音；不同政见的声音
The newspaper gave a platform to dissident voices.
这家报纸为不同政见的声音提供了平台。
持不同政见的作家
The dissident writer's books were banned in his home country.
这位持不同政见的作家的书在他的祖国遭到查禁。
异见运动；反政府运动
The dissident movement gained strength in the 1980s.
这场异见运动在20世纪80年代逐渐壮大。
异见者是一个生活在真理中的人。
This saying is attributed to Václav Havel, the Czech playwright and later president, who was a leading figure in the anti-communist dissident movement. For Havel, living in truth meant refusing to cooperate with the official lies of an authoritarian regime.
这句话出自捷克剧作家、后来成为总统的瓦茨拉夫·哈维尔。他是反对共产主义政权的异见运动的重要人物。对哈维尔而言，活在真理中意味着拒绝配合专制政权的官方谎言。
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把 dissident 拆成 dis（不）+ sident（联想 resident 居民）：不随大流的居民，即持不同政见者。
语域：formal 常见场景：政治新闻、国际关系报道、历史讨论 该词多用于正式、书面语境，常见于政治新闻、国际关系报道和历史讨论，表示持不同政见或与主流意见相左的人或态度；日常口语中较少使用。
这些词拼写上均含 -sident/-cident/-fident 结尾，但发音与 dissident /ˈdɪsədɪnt/ 并不完全押韵。resident 和 president 以 /zɪdənt/ 结尾，彼此押韵；incident 以 /ˈɪnsɪdənt/、accident 以 /ˈæksɪdənt/ 结尾，重读元音和辅音都与 dissident 不同；confident 和 evident 的结尾也不同。注意 dissident 中的 /s/，不要因为拼写相似而读成 /z/。
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