| 释义 |
ˈpower-ˌpolitics
[f. power n.1 + politic n. 3, translating G. machtpolitik (f. macht might, power + politik politics).]
Political action based on or backed by threats to use force. Hence power-poˈlitical a., pertaining to or characterized by power-politics; power-poliˈtician, one who practises power-politics.
1937G. M. Young Daylight & Champaign 135 We shall all have to..learn to talk of power-politics and art-form antecedents and the literary-critical approach, as if we had been cradled in Marburg and reared in Michigan. 1939Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xiii. 179 The Duke's decision..to mobilize his nephew Ricky and plunge immediately into power politics was one which would have occasioned no surprise to anybody acquainted with the militant traditions of his proud family. 1940A. Huxley Let. 9 Oct. (1969) 460, I am engaged at the moment on a strangely apposite study of Père Joseph, collaborator of Richelieu, the most astounding case of a power politician who was also a religious mystic. 1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 21 For centuries Vienna and Paris had been the centres of European power-politics. 1942Partridge Usage & Abusage (1947) 355/1 Hitler was the protagonist of Nazism, with its power-political ideology. 1959Oxf. Mag. 4 June 448/1 The abolition of compulsory Latin was a power-political move intended to pacify the jealous monoliths of America and Russia. 1961J. Wilson Reason & Morals ii. 125 If I do not use human beings as ends in themselves..it..results in that political tyranny which tends to corrupt the power-politician or the brain-washer. 1973J. Burrows Like an Evening Gone ii. 31, I like that period... Besides—power politics of any age—it's a kind of adventure. 1977Church Times 10 June 14/4 Even monasticism had been sucked into the power-political structure of the medieval Church. |