rationalist在中文中有‘理性论者、理性主义者’的意思，在日常中也代表’纯理论者’的意思，发音音标为[r’???n?list]，rationalist常被用作名词，在《英国拉丁词典》中，共找到14个与rationalist相关的用法和句子。
1.理性论者
例句:So a human encountering the divine, as Muslims believe Muhammad did, to the rationalist, this is a matter not of fact but of wishful fiction, and like all of us, i like to think of myself as rational.
翻译:所以当一个人碰到了神 就像相信那样 对于理性主义者来说，这并不是事实，而是妄想 就像大多数在座的各位一样，我是一个理性的人 。
来源：牛津英汉双解词典
2.理性主义者
例句:i admire your directness, your diction, your sentence structure, even if i don’t necessarily choose to admire whom or what you choose to read and the gullibility with which you take at face value rationalist blasphemies spouted by an immoralist
翻译:我欣赏你的直截了当 你的遣词造句 即便我不会欣赏你。
来源：英语发音在线词典
3.纯理论者
例句:Buildings like this are designed along the lines of a rationalist conspiracy.
翻译:这楼设计得也太乱了。
来源：英汉百科词典
4.理性主义的、纯理论者
例句:You know, the rationalist in me wants to agree, but skull on fire presents a pretty compelling argument for “hail Satan.”
翻译:我心中的理智主义者想赞同你的看法 但是 火骷髅看上去的确很像魔鬼。
来源：郎文当代高级英语辞典
rationalist一般作为名词使用，如在rationalist approach(理性主义方法)等常见短语中出现较多。
1. Buildings like this are designed along the lines of a rationalist conspiracy.
翻译:这楼设计得也太乱了。
2. You know, the rationalist in me wants to agree, but skull on fire presents a pretty compelling argument for “hail Satan.”
翻译:我心中的理智主义者想赞同你的看法 但是 火骷髅看上去的确很像魔鬼。
3. Mr. Cause-and-Effect Rationalist?
翻译:你不是信因果论的理性主义者吗？。
