| 单词 | free europe |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree Europe (b) Applied to non-communist countries and regions. Esp. in free world, free Europe. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > non-communist states west1919 free world1946 1946 Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 9 Sept. 10/5 We can reasonably look forward to a time when Germans will nakedly present, for the whole world to see, the clearest contrast between the fruits of the free world of the West and the slave world of the East. 1950 Time 17 July 32/3 A branch of the National Committee for a Free Europe founded last year by a group of private U.S. citizens. 1954 P. Williams Polit. in Post-War France 410 In October [1953]..the Vietnam national congress resolved that free Vietnam would not remain within the French Union in its present form. 1957 BBC Handbk. 169 Throughout free Europe from Norway to the Turco-Soviet frontier. 1958 G. Wint Dragon & Sickle iv. 73 The Communist parties in most of the countries of free Asia had been prospering by their quiet methods of boring from within. 1963 Guardian 19 Apr. 11/2 The free-world countries involved were Britain and Greece. 1985 D. Harvey in D. Gregory & J. Urry Social Relations & Spatial Structures vii. 161 Co-optation and repression, at home and abroad, to keep the free world free for the circulation of capital, became the dominant political theme. 2006 Times (Nexis) 5 Dec. 17 Our cynical use of the word ‘democracy’ was mirrored by some cold warriors on the Free World's side. < as lemmas |
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