| 单词 | east of suez |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseast of (the) Suez P3. east of (the) Suez: used to denote the sphere of British military and political interests in Asia and the Pacific. ΚΠ 1890 R. Kipling in Scots Observer 21 June 124/2 Ship me somewheres east of Suez where the best is like the worst. 1927 Jrnl. Philos. 24 496 Everything east of Suez may form a class of terms called ‘orientals’ and may be said to have common property of orientality. 1935 Times 6 Apr. 8/5 A hostile Japan would mean that in the event of another war a great deal of Britain's might would already be mortgaged to activities east of the Suez. 1966 Punch 8 June 826/1 Nor am I sure that the anonymous genius who originally picked ‘East of Suez’ to describe the sphere of our Asian involvement chose wisely. 2002 D. Goldsworthy Losing Blanket 8 The British Cabinet's irrevocable decision of January 1968 to pull out the forces from everywhere east of Suez except Hong Kong and Brunei. < as lemmas |
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