an aggressive and unreasonable belief that your own country is better than all others 沙文主义 It was a typical case of British chauvinism and insularity. 这是典型的英国沙文主义和狭隘观念。 national/cultural chauvinism 民族／文化沙文主义
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the belief held by some men that men are more important, intelligent, etc. than women 大男子主义 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- male
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Word Originlate 19th cent.: named after Nicolas Chauvin, a Napoleonic veteran noted for his extreme patriotism, popularized as a character by the Cogniard brothers in Cocarde Tricolore (1831).