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dogma
noun [ C or U ]
  disapproving
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/ˈdɒɡ.mə/ us
/ˈdɑːɡ.mə/
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a fixed, especially religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts
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  • I confess that I have a certain difficulty in accepting this dogma. 
  • It has no set of dogmas, no sacred book, no moral code. 
  • The Anglican Church has formulated this dogma much in the same words as that of the Orthodox Church. 
  • The dogma of materialism was specially cultivated at this time. 
  • The dogma suffers from an insoluble contradiction within itself. 
(Definition of dogma from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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dogma
noun [ C/U ]
us
/ˈdɔɡ·mə, ˈdɑɡ-/
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a fixed belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts:
[ U ] liberal/conservative dogma
(Definition of dogma from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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（尤指宗教的）教義，教條，信條…
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（尤指宗教的）教义，教条，信条…
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