来自美国参议员Joseph McCarthy,美国上世纪50年代反共思想的代表人物,因此,别人就根据他的名字杜撰出该词。该姓氏字面意思为Son of Carthy.
McCarthyism 的用法和双语例句“点击”或“选中”例句中的单词,就可以看到词义解释
The moves have not apparently discouraged staff at wikileaks , as the organization continues to post twitter feeds mocking the efforts to limit access to the documents , including one note on saturday reading : " digital mccarthyism : u.s. military tries to intimidate soldiers into not reading wikileaks " .
Next came civil war , abu ghraib , rendition , waterboarding , official mccarthyism , wiretapping and the slow destruction of key constitutional liberties .
接下来是内战,阿布格莱布虐囚,水刑,官方的麦卡锡主义,窃听和慢慢被摧毁的关键的宪法自由。
Howard fast 's sympathy for socialism was reflected in his novel spartacus , thus he became a victim of mccarthyism in america ; he was even blacklisted by the fbi for writing the novel .
But whereas robeson 's activism ran headlong into early cold-war paranoia , blacklists and mccarthyism , mr belafonte was luckier : his career rose more or less in tandem with the american civil-rights movement .
Still , many western intellectuals , recoiling from the excesses of mccarthyism , and hampered by lack of firsthand information , gave the benefit of the doubt to mao in the decade that followed .