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理念

lǐ niàn

2-character word

What 理念 means

1. idea
2. concept
3. philosophy
4. theory

The characters in 理念

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 念niànto read; to study (a subject); to attend (a school)

Example sentences

• 理念没有道理。
  Lǐniàn méiyǒu dàoli.
  The concept doesn’t make sense.
• 采用他的理念。
  Adopt his concepts.
• “网络成瘾症”这个理念将意味着“网络”是一种可以下定义的活动。
  "wǎngluòchéngyǐn zhèng " zhège lǐniàn jiāng yìwèizhe "wǎngluò " shì yīzhǒng kěyǐ xiàdìngyì de huódòng.
  The concept of “Internet addiction” implies that “the Internet” is some sort of definable activity.
• 我们的建国理念是“人人生而平等”。几个世纪以来，我们一直在全国乃至世界范围内为实践上述理念的真谛而浴血奋斗。
  Wǒmen de jiànguó lǐniàn shì "rénrén shēng ér píngděng ". jǐge shìjì yǐlái, wǒmen yīzhí zài quánguó nǎizhì shìjiè fànwéi nèi wèi shíjiàn shàngshù lǐniàn de zhēndì ér yùxuè fèndòu.
  We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words – within our borders, and around the world.
• 我想说的是，柴门霍夫不仅构建了一个语言学对象，而且在这之后还有一个理念——一个兄弟情谊的理念，一个和平主义的理念。这种理想的力量——世界语者甚至因此而受到纳粹主义和斯大林主义的迫害——至今仍为世界语者社区所保留。没有人能说这是失败的，但有一件事需要说明：任何语言之所以成功的原因总是难以定义的。
  What I’m getting at is that Zamenhof not only built a linguistic object, but that behind that was an idea — an idea of brotherhood, a pacifist idea. That strength of an ideal — for which Esperantists were even persecuted under Nazism and Stalinism — is still conserved by the community of Esperantists. One cannot say that it has failed, but one thing needs to be said: the reason why any language is successful is always indefinable.