Tammany
['tæməni]
解釋/意思:
n. the Tammany Society a Democratic organisation in New York notorious for the corrupt influence it has exerted in city politics.
亚历山大校對
例句/造句/用法:
- You can beat Tammany Hall permanently in one way--by making the government of a city as human, as kindly, as jolly as Tammany Hall. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Finally the Tammany leader called a halt, as we were running big engine lathes out on the sidewalk, and he was afraid we were carrying it a little too far. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The really rigid and mechanical thing is the charter behind which Tammany works. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We forget completely the important wants supplied by Tammany Hall. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And the Roman voters were organized to an extent that makes the Tammany machine of New York seem artless and honest. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When one of the Tammany aspirants appeared, he was told to go right to work at $1. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I am aware of the contract-grafts, the franchise-steals, the dirty streets, the bribing and the blackmail, the vice-and-crime partnerships, the Big Business alliances of Tammany Hall. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As our business increased enormously, our quarters became too small, so we saw the district Tammany leader and asked him if we could not store castings and other things on the sidewalk. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You can find Tammany duplicated wherever there is a social group to be governed--in trade unions, in clubs, in boys' gangs, in the Four Hundred, in the Socialist Party. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Tammany is not a satanic instrument of deception, cleverly devised to thwart the will of the people. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In its long record of failure, in the comparative success of Tammany, those who are aiming at social changes can see a profound lesson; the impulses, cravings and wants of men must be employed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Tammany itself becomes rigid when it is too successful, and only defeat seems to give it new life. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That made the Tammany man all safe. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For Tammany is the real government that has defeated a mechanical foresight. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
校對:斯坦顿