| 单词 | angry brigade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAngry Brigade Angry Brigade n. (a) (with the) a left-wing revolutionary group who engaged in a terrorist campaign in Britain in the early 1970s (now historical); (b) (more generally; usually with lower-case initials) any group of individuals represented as expressing a collective sense of anger, outrage, or indignation at something. [Apparently originally with allusion to French Les Enragés (literally ‘The Enraged Ones’), originally the name a group of radicals operating during the French Revolution (1789 in this sense), subsequently (1968) adopted by a group of left-wing students at the University of Paris at Nanterre, whose protests against the university administration in 1968 were instrumental in bringing about the French general strike in May of that year.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > terrorism > [noun] > terrorist > specific terrorist organization Red Army Faction1969 Red Army1970 Angry Brigade1971 Red Army Faction1971 Red Brigade1971 Red Army Fraction1972 Action Directe1980 1971 Guardian 14 Jan. 1 The ‘Guardian’ yesterday received a letter warning: ‘Robert Carr got it tonight were (sic) getting closer’... It..was signed ‘Communiqué from the Angry Brigade’. 1972 Daily Mail 3 Apr. 6/2 New infants, junior, secondary and university courses are all catering for—and creating—an ecological angry brigade. 1990 Independent (Nexis) 4 June 14 Rex's fourth wife was the tempestuous Welsh-born actress Rachel Roberts, a sharp contrast, and part of the theatre's ‘angry brigade’. 2003 Economist 12 Apr. 58/1 Like so much of the Muslim world, the country's North-West Frontier Province is angry. But here, the angry brigade is in government. 2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 19 May The German Red Army Faction, founded..in 1970—the same year as the Red Brigades in Italy and the Angry Brigade in Britain. < as lemmas |
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