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单词 pol
释义
polpol /pɒl $ pɑːl/ noun [countable] American English informal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpol
Origin:
1900-2000 politician
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Apparently Grijalva has declared himself the moral guidepost for other local pols.
  • But the mayor had studiously avoided endorsing any of the old pols running.
  • Forbes is traveling the country at an impressive clip, spreading his flat-tax message and pocketing IOUs from Republican pols.
  • In his view, Dole is just another Washington pol.
  • Thereafter the pols rejected Jack as unworthy, and tried to destroy him.
  • They loved the issues, hated the pols.
  • They were handshaking, backslapping old-style Texas pols.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other. Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles (=think in two completely different ways) on this issue.
(=where you vote in an election)
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • But his method of filming and Huston's were worlds apart.
  • Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
  • Physically they were almost identical, but psychologically they were worlds apart.
  • The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
  • The two feelings were poles apart.
  • Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
  • Watching somebody and actually killing them are worlds apart.
  • You all say that but the truth is, the theory and the practice are worlds apart.
  • Tokyo and Washington remain poles apart on the issue of free trade.
  • I suppose that logicians and physicists normally consider themselves to be poles apart.
  • Our views may be poles apart but they're not saboteurs.
  • The results are poles apart in terms of character ... each room has a distinctive style of its own.
  • The two feelings were poles apart.
  • Their childhoods, like almost everything else about them, were poles apart.
  • This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart.
a politician – used in newspapers:  He’s just another Washington pol.
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