| 释义 |
‖ vœu|vø|
Pl. vœux |vø|.
[Fr., lit. ‘vow, wish’: see vow n.]
A recommendation made by an international conference, which is not mandatory.
1917E. Satow Guide to Diplomatic Practice II. xxvi. 142 A recommendation (vœu)..respecting the liquor trade was adopted. 1936R. C. K. Ensor England, 1870–1914 xii. 420 A preamble like that..enacts nothing. It is only a vœu. 1939H. Nicolson Diplomacy 250 Voeux. It sometimes happens that a conference wishes to add to its treaty certain ‘recommendations’ for future good conduct. These are called ‘wishes’ or ‘voeux’. Thus the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 emitted six ‘voeux’. These have no binding force upon the signatories. 1961A. Marder From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow I. vi. 133 Sir Edward Fry..presented a pious voeu,..declaring it was ‘highly desirable that the Governments should resume the serious study of this question’. |