| 释义 |
uniˈlateralist, n. and a.
[-ist.]
A. n. One who favours or adopts a policy of unilateral disarmament.
1927Daily Tel. 14 Mar. 9/7 The lack of foresight on the part of the ‘Unilateralists’..led..to the..postponement of Germany's entry into the League. 1959Guardian 15 Oct. 10/4 Defeats among unilateralists were matched by defeats among believers in the ‘great deterrent’. 1960[see multilateralist adj. and n. s.v. multilateral a.]. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Nov. 1277/2 For Bevan was emphatically no fellow-traveller, no isolationist, no unilateralist and certainly no pacifist.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to unilateral disarmament, or to unilateralists or their activities.
1959Manch. Guardian 20 July 6/2 There is..little danger that it [sc. the Labour Party conference] will go along the unilateralist road. 1960News Chron. 20 Sept. 6/1 By insisting that this country should abandon nuclear weapons and any alliance that possesses them, Mr. Cousins is taking up a unilateralist position. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 22 Mr Gaitskell's recapture of Labour Party defence policy from the hands of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament..had left him exposed as the chief target for unilateralist retaliation. |