| 释义 |
pre-revoˈlutionary, a. and n.
[pre- B. 1.]
A. adj.
1. Existing before a (particular) revolution.
1861Maine Anc. Law iv. (1876) 85 The præ-revolutionary jurists. 1867H. W. Beecher in N.Y. Ledger 7 Sept. 2/3 Planted in 1646, it was more than a hundred years old when the pre-revolutionary excitements were taking place in Boston. 1874T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey x. 166 Since the hanging of a witch or two in pre-revolutionary days, the office of sheriff there has been virtually a sinecure. 1936Burlington Mag. Mar. 130/2 Baroque paintings of the pre-Revolutionary decades in France. 1961Times 29 Dec. 11/1 Pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. 1976New Yorker 15 Nov. 213/1 Some extraordinarily rich evocations of pre-revolutionary village life in China.
2. Of a society or its condition: verging on social or political revolution.
1964R. D. Hopper in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. xix. 313 In pre-revolutionary societies, there is formed a group that is marginal to the structure of political power and social prestige. 1972‘H. Buckmaster’ Walking Trip 85 It is a prerevolutionary situation I'm told by a white politician in Salisbury, and he thinks the next step is violence. 1974Listener 24 Jan. 108/3 An artist in a pre-revolutionary situation concentrates upon actually producing art. 1975A. Beevor Violent Brink vii. 165 England, the despair of Marx, seemed at last about to move into a pre-revolutionary situation.
B. n. One who prepares the way for a revolution.
1937Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 323/2 Mr. Stephen Spender's ‘The Destructive Element’, with its presentation of Henry James as a master pre-revolutionary. |