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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Ludd·ite /ˈlʌˌdaɪt/
 人名

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lud·dite n. One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Luddite
      n 1: any opponent of technological progress
      2: one of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed
         labor-saving machinery that they thought would cause
         unemployment