[mass noun]the upholding or maintenance of tradition, especially so as to resist change (尤指反对变革的)传统主义 ■(chiefly historical)the theory that all moral and religious truth comes from divine revelation passed on by tradition, human reason being incapable of attaining it (主史)传统论(认为所有道德及宗教真理来自以传统方式流传下来的神启,非人类理性而能获得)