Politic
['pɒlɪtɪk] or ['pɑlətɪk]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; 'he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage'; 'the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error' .
(adj.) marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; 'it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels'; 'a politic decision'; 'a politic manager'; 'a politic old scoundrel'; 'a shrewd and politic reply' .
戴维斯整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under Body.
(a.) Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.
(a.) Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.
(n.) A politician.
手打:特雷弗
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Civil, political, CIVIC.[2]. Wise, prudent, judicious, discreet, sagacious, prudential, wary, provident.[3]. Artful, cunning, shrewd, intriguing, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, Machiavelian.
雨果錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prudent, wise, sagacious, provident, diplomatic, judicious, cunning, wary,well_devised, discreet
ANT:Imprudent, unwise, improvident, undiplomatic, impolitic
整理:洛厄尔
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to policy: well-devised: judicious in management: skilled in political affairs: prudent: discreet: cunning: (Shak.) concerned with politics.—adj. Polit′ical pertaining to polity or government: pertaining to nations or to parties in a nation who differ in their views of how it ought to be governed: derived from government.—adv. Polit′ically.—ns. Polit′icaster (Milt.) a petty politician; Politic′ian one versed in or devoted to politics: a man of artifice and cunning.—adj. (Milt.) politic.—adv. Pol′iticly.—n.sing. Pol′itics the art or science of government: the management of a political party: political affairs or opinions.—adj. Pol′itique (Bacon) political civil.—n. Pol′ity the constitution of the government of a state or an institution: civil constitution: a body of people arranged under a system of government.—Political economy the science which treats of the production distribution and consumption of wealth; Political science the science or study of government as to its principles aims methods &c.—Body politic the whole body of a people as constituting a state.
校對:蒂米
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
手打:柴门霍夫
例句/造句/用法:
- But your slave is politic. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Fred paused an instant, and then added, in politic appeal to his uncle's vanity, That is hardly a thing for a gentleman to ask. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It was also politic, as leaving you with something overhanging you, to expect me again with a little anxiety on a day not named. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I should be sorry to imply that Mr. Skimpole divined this and was politic; I really never understood him well enough to know. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- First then, of wisdom: the State which we have called into being will be wise because politic. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Farewell to courtly pleasure; to politic intrigue; to the maze of passion and folly! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I do it because it's politic; I do it on principle. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- By Heaven, madame, politic! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But all was not well, and, as has happened so often before, the politics of father and son were violently different. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There is a great deal of literal truth in that remark, for it has been the peculiar work of Bryan to express in politics some of that emotion which has made America the home of new religions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But genuine politics is not an inhuman task. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There is no need, therefore, to generate dialectical disputes about the final goal of politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, a gentleman couldn't go into politics. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- These fine differences about the constitution of the Deity interwove with politics and international disputes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But politics was a personal drama without meaning or a vague abstraction without substance. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In both the Republic and Statesman a close connection is maintained between Politics and Dialectic. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This is as true of the high politics of Isaiah as it is of the ward boss. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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