0 someone who tries to improve a system or law by changing it -- 改革者；革新者；改良者
a social reformer 社会改革家
First, reformers should avoid facile assumptions about what the public wants and will accept.
In both instances it was the humanists and orthographers who played the critical roles in debates that were to have major consequences for the reformers.
To start with, the attacks coincided with growing doubts by the reformers regarding their own methods.
The myriad chemical publications of these cameralist reformers exist today as the artifacts of an extinct profession.
Such comment would have been unthinkable before 1784, and the journal evidently had the protection of the liberal reformers in government.
It also underlines the extent to which reformers were dependent upon events to attract parliamentary attention to their cause.
Despite the admonitions of progressive welfare reformers, it seems unlikely that this policy will be reversed.
The book begins with three valuable theoretical lessons for pension reformers of all stripes.
