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单词 bridge-building work
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bridge-building work
Used attributively with the sense ‘of, belonging, or relating to bridge-building’ (literally or figuratively), ‘involved or engaged in bridge-building’; as bridge-building programme, bridge-building work, etc.
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1845 Builder 18 Oct. 497/2 (heading) The bridge-building fraternities in the middle ages.
1931 J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? vi. 199 There is no such instinct, any more than there is..a bridge-building instinct.
1946 Jrnl.-Every Evening (Wilmington, Delaware) 18 June 71/1 The National Conference of Christians and Jews is a bridge-building organization.
1967 N.Y. Times 1 Mar. 1/2 The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced the Administration's East–West bridge-building program today by approving the United States–Soviet consular treaty.
2006 Independent 29 Nov. 3/1 The Rev. Andrew Rawding's activities are just one example..of the kind of bridge-building work which goes on beneath the radar in Northern Ireland.
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