卢德的工人 — meaning in English
Lú dé de gōng rén
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English meaning
- Luddite noun A person who is opposed to new technology, or who is unwilling or unable to use it.
Senses
卢德的工人 is used for these senses in English:
- Luddite (historical) Any of a group of early-19th-century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood.
Luddite — full definition
- noun A person who is opposed to new technology, or who is unwilling or unable to use it.
- noun A member of the groups of English textile workers who destroyed factory machinery in the early nineteenth century in protest at mechanisation and the loss of their livelihoods.
- adjective Hostile to, or characteristic of hostility to, new technology.