| 释义 |
▪ I. ‖ mir, n.2|mɪə(r)|
[Russ.]
A village community in pre-revolutionary Russia. Also attrib.
1877D. M. Wallace Russia I. viii. 179 The Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions. 1878E. C. Grenville-Murray Russians To-Day 21 The Mir system may be summed up in a few words; it has simply caused the peasant to exchange the domination of his old master for the more grinding tyranny of many masters. 1905J. H. Rose Devel. European Nations xi. 294 The ownership of the soil of Russia by the Mirs, the communes of her myriad villages. 1916C. E. Bechhofer Russ. at Cross-Roads 71 No period is known in Russian history when the Mir did not exist. 1925Contemp. Rev. Jan. 60 They pointed out that the land-holding peasant..did not cease to be a member of the mir. 1967Listener 2 Nov. 558/3 The break-up of the mir and the..transition from communal to hereditary tenure. 1975Times 8 Jan. 15/7 The democratic and civic traditions of Russia, from Kievian Rus to the mirs and the Zaporozhean Republic.
▪ II. mir
obs. form of myrrh. |