| 单词 | militate |
| 释义 | militate (once / 9300 pages) v Your father's loss of his job may militate against the big family vacation your parents had been planning. To militate is to be a deciding factor for or against. The word militate descends from the same Latin word as military. Imagine armed soldiers at a check point. Their presence might militate against your plan of crossing the border, or it might militate for their bringing you in for questioning. When you are young, sometimes your age works for you, and sometimes it militates against you. WORD FAMILYmilitate: militated, militates, militating USAGE EXAMPLESIn some ways, this is an odd fellowship: populist nationalism would seem to militate against an international brotherhood. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) The peculiarities of Britain’s housing market, in sum, militate against big price declines: in 2007-11, house prices fell by two-thirds as much as in America. Economist(Dec 07, 2016) “People had lousy teeth, if they had teeth at all, which militated against opening your mouth in social settings,” he says. Time(Nov 28, 2016) v have force or influence; bring about an effect or change Politeness militat ed against this opinion being expressed Hyper act upon, influence, work have and exert influence or effect |
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