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单词 fifth columnist
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
fifth column, 
    1. Governmenta group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
    2. Government(originally) Franco sympathizers in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War: so called in allusion to a statement in 1936 that the insurgents had four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth column of sympathizers in the city ready to rise and betray it.
    fifth columnist. 

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