英语词汇“soft left”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. Politics. Designating a comparatively moderate faction of a political party or section of the political spectrum, typically in contrast with another that is more dogmatic or hard-line (see hard adj. 22c). Now chiefly in soft left.

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moderate1702

non-militant1829

soft1844

1844 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 2 Mar. The meeting was then amused by the reading of a sketch of the ‘Dog eat Dog’ war between the ‘Hard and Soft’ factions of the Loco Foco party.

1878 Washington Post 3 Apr. Upon financial questions Gen. Butler is rather identified with the soft wing of the Democratic party than with the Republicans.

1936 N.Y. Hist. 17 267 The ‘Soft’ wing of the Democracy renominated Horatio Seymour.

1970 D. Martin in M. W. Cranston New Left 179 ‘Consume more, live less’..is the general and by now familiar picture presented by the ‘soft left’.

1977 Economist 29 Oct. 12/2 To introduce capital punishment..would merely be a way of pressganging many members of Germany's soft left into the thinning ranks of its hard one.

1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Aug. 8/4 Neo-con Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a soft-right, near-left Democrat, objected years ago to the Communist assumption of such words as people's, democratic, [etc.].

2011 Irish Times (Nexis) 4 Oct. 16 It was better for economic elites to compromise with the soft left rather than to risk the rise of the hard left.

单词	soft left
释义	> as lemmas soft left c. Politics. Designating a comparatively moderate faction of a political party or section of the political spectrum, typically in contrast with another that is more dogmatic or hard-line (see hard adj. 22c). Now chiefly in soft left. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > moderate moderate1702 non-militant1829 soft1844 1844 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 2 Mar. The meeting was then amused by the reading of a sketch of the ‘Dog eat Dog’ war between the ‘Hard and Soft’ factions of the Loco Foco party. 1878 Washington Post 3 Apr. Upon financial questions Gen. Butler is rather identified with the soft wing of the Democratic party than with the Republicans. 1936 N.Y. Hist. 17 267 The ‘Soft’ wing of the Democracy renominated Horatio Seymour. 1970 D. Martin in M. W. Cranston New Left 179 ‘Consume more, live less’..is the general and by now familiar picture presented by the ‘soft left’. 1977 Economist 29 Oct. 12/2 To introduce capital punishment..would merely be a way of pressganging many members of Germany's soft left into the thinning ranks of its hard one. 1985 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Aug. 8/4 Neo-con Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a soft-right, near-left Democrat, objected years ago to the Communist assumption of such words as people's, democratic, [etc.]. 2011 Irish Times (Nexis) 4 Oct. 16 It was better for economic elites to compromise with the soft left rather than to risk the rise of the hard left. extracted from softadj. < as lemmas
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