释义 |
pan-Euroˈpean, a. [f. pan- + European a.] Pertaining to, affecting, or extending over the whole of Europe. Hence pan-Euroˈpeanism.
1901Conrad & Hueffer Inheritors viii. 117 There was an ‘All Round the World Cable Company’.., and a ‘Pan-European Railway, Exploration, and Civilization Company’ that let in light in dark places. 1931Ann. Reg. 1930 172 This same trend in Italian policy was also manifested in Italy's reply to M. Briand's ‘Pan-European’ proposal in the course of which the Fascist Government declared its disagreement with any scheme of this kind which excluded Turkey and Russia. 1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 2 The two great nations of Central Europe..burdened with Pan-European past..remained in a condition of political disunion and dynastic subdivision. 1961Guardian 9 June 8/6 The later Pan-Europeanism of this loneliest of poets [sc. Rilke]. 1966New Statesman 14 Oct. 540/2 This journal repeatedly emphasised that the famous breeze of European competition, or the large accumulations of capital open to pan-European industries, were no substitute for a successful socialist economy. 1979Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 16/6 The new flowers..have been put through their paces under the Fleuroselect scheme which is run by a pan-European organisation for testing them.., with a secretariat in The Hague. |