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单词 pacifist
释义
pacifistpac‧i‧fist /ˈpæsɪfɪst/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Bergson was imprisoned as a pacifist during the World War I.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A pacifist, a socialist, and many other wonderful, otherworldly things.
  • All were pacifists and, at least at the beginning of their careers, socialists.
  • For the pacifist mainstream, however, the threatened industrial explosion fed nightmares of social collapse rather than dreams of international peace.
  • For their part, neither Carrillo nor Guzman are considered pacifists within the drug trade.
  • Ramsey could not say he was a pacifist.
  • The East Fulham by-election in October 1933 proved a significant pointer to the strength of pacifist sentiment.
  • The Labour candidate advocating a pacifist programme, reversed a large Conservative majority in a seat never before held by Labour.
  • The Moravians turned out to be less consistent pacifists.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is against war
someone who believes that all war and violence is wrong: · Bergson was imprisoned as a pacifist during the World War I.
strongly against war, especially a war that your country is fighting at the present time: anti-war protest/demonstration/campaigner: · During the Gulf War, there were several big anti-war demonstrations.· Anti-war feeling grew stronger in the US as the Vietnam conflict went on.
a group of people or countries that are peace-loving believe strongly in peace rather than war: · The Australian Aboriginals are a peace-loving race who live simply off the land.· As a nation, they are gentle and peace-loving.
all the people who protest against wars in general or against a particular war: · He was a tireless campaigner for the peace movement during the cold war.· The peace movement held a massive rally in Hyde Park today.
someone who joins in an organized protest against a war: · Peace protesters broke into the Administration building and occupied it for six days.· Some 40,000 peace demonstrators gathered in Bonn yesterday to protest agains the bombing.
WORD SETS
agitprop, nounapartheid, nounclass struggle, nouncollectivism, nouncolonialist, nouncommunism, nounconsciousness raising, nounconsumerism, noundemocrat, noundemocratic, adjectivedemocratize, verbdenationalize, verbdesegregate, verbdoctrine, noundogma, noundove, noundovish, adjectivedrive, nounfiat, nounhawk, nouninternationalism, noun-ism, suffixism, nounland reform, nounMachiavellian, adjectivemanifesto, nounMarxism, nounmeritocracy, nounnihilism, nounnon-aggression, nounnon-intervention, nounnon-partisan, adjectivenon-violence, nounopen-door policy, nounpacifism, nounpacifist, nounparty line, nounpassive resistance, nounperestroika, nounpolitical action committee, nounprivate member's bill, nounprogramme, nounradical, adjectivereaction, nounreformist, adjectiverevisionism, nounsocial democracy, nounsocial engineering, nounsocialism, nounsocialist, adjectivesocialist, nounsubsidiarity, nounwomen's lib, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· They consider themselves to be committed Christians.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounpeacepeacefulnesspacifierpacifismpacifistadjectivepeacefulpeaceablepacifistadverbpeacefullypeaceablyverbpacify
someone who believes that wars are wrong and who refuses to use violencepacifist adjective [only before noun]:  the pacifist movement
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