| 释义 |
‖ raison d'état|rɛzɔ̃ deta|
[Fr.]
= reason of state s.v. reason n.1 5 b.
1869Mill Subj. Women iii. 92 The raison d'état, meaning the convenience of the government,..was deemed a sufficient explanation and excuse for the most flagitious crimes. 1939A. Toynbee Study of Hist. VI. 38 The god who was worshipped by the Imperial Dynasty was not..a product of raison d'état. 1958E. H. Carr Socialism in One Country I. i. 6 Raison d'état is tough enough to emerge unscathed from the revolutionary turmoil. 1965New Statesman 23 Apr. 648/2 The Third Reich, whose ideologists preferred the declamatory pathos of Fichte to Hegel's dispassionate concern with raison d'état. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Nov. 1483/2 Hanged, on very dubious law, for raisons d'état by a post-war Labour Lord Chancellor. 1977Times 14 Jan. 17/4 The Elysée's short-sighted conception of raison d'état. |