| 单词 | politics |
| 释义 | politics (pɒlɪtɪks ) 1. plural noun B1 Politics are the actions or activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society. The verb that follows politics may be either singular or plural. The key question in British politics was how long the prime minister could survive. He quickly involved himself in local politics. ...a crucial watershed in the politics of the German right. [+ of] Politics is by no means the only arena in which women are excelling. Synonyms: affairs of state, government, government policy, public affairs 2. See also party politics 3. plural noun [usually with poss] Your politics are your beliefs about how a country ought to be governed. My politics are well to the left of centre. Synonyms: political beliefs, party politics, political allegiances, political leanings 4. uncountable noun B1+ Politics is the study of the ways in which countries are governed. He began studying politics and medieval history. ...young politics graduates. Synonyms: political science, polity, statesmanship, civics 5. plural noun Politics can be used to talk about the ways that power is shared in an organization and the ways it is affected by personal relationships between people who work together. The verb that follows politics may be either singular or plural. You need to understand how office politics influence the working environment. Quotations: Politics is the art of the possible A week is a long time in politics Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatableAmbassador's Journal Practical politics consists in ignoring factsThe Education of Henry Adams In politics the middle way is none at all In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in follyTable Talk Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things politics: a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantageThe Devil's Dictionary Politics makes strange bedfellows Collocations: coalition politics The country finds itself grappling with the uncertainties of coalition politics. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Their entire argument for proportional representation is that coalition politics work. Times, Sunday Times (2010) For the people, it will be a high price to pay for the compromises of coalition politics. Times, Sunday Times (2012) We mostly discussed contemporary politics. Times, Sunday Times (2006) This is not the only point at which the impact of contemporary politics on the film can be felt. The Times Literary Supplement (2013) Sometimes a single picture sheds light on ancient history or contemporary politics. Times, Sunday Times (2006) There is a lot wrong with political parties but it is hard to envisage democratic politics working well without them. Times, Sunday Times (2011) The imperative of democratic politics is to do something the people want. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The virtue of democratic politics remains the way it binds a nation of multiple identities. Times, Sunday Times (2014) I learnt not to discuss politics with my father in the last decade of his life. Times, Sunday Times (2014) There she would sit for hours reading and discussing politics. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Many people use strong language when they discuss politics and social issues. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Then there is the subtle effect that the World Cup has on domestic politics. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He criticised those in Britain who had suggested that the French experience might prove relevant to British domestic politics. Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century (1989) Meanwhile, domestic politics on both sides of the Atlantic has turned against free trade. Times, Sunday Times (2016) She was also president of the European Union of Women, which aims to encourage women to enter politics. Times, Sunday Times (2015) His career had its ups and downs and he cut back on acting when he entered politics. Times, Sunday Times (2012) So why, I ask, with her father's history of activism, did she not enter politics? Times, Sunday Times (2008) This is pure gesture politics. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Political parties need to take concrete action rather than indulge in gesture politics. Times, Sunday Times (2014) We hoped for fair treatment but got gesture politics. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Since religion is going to play a more central role in global politics in the future, we'd better try harder to understand it. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Other nations' attentions were diverted from global politics. Times, Sunday Times (2014) It has correctly perceived that the world will not change until we seize control of global politics. THE AGE OF CONSENT (2003) He offered his full support to his successor but said it was not his job to intervene in the internal politics of the party he led for almost 13 years. Times, Sunday Times (2014) She stayed away from internal politics and kept her head down. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit (1994) We regard this as intervention in our country's internal politics. Times, Sunday Times (2012) In some cases, the digital world has allowed people to insert themselves into mainstream politics. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The same idea was already appearing in mainstream American politics. AUTHENTICITY: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life (2003) Part of this indifference is down to the current disenchantment with mainstream politics. Times, Sunday Times (2014) There is an adage that, in modern politics, you are either quick or you are dead. Times, Sunday Times (2016) But in modern politics you've got to get noticed. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The first discussion was about the role of environmental issues in modern politics. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The perpetually squabbling leaders have failed to put national security above partisan politics. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Thousands grappled with this problem before going to the polls, but partisan politics determined the outcome of the election. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995) But he also vowed to end divisive and partisan politics in Washington. Times, Sunday Times (2009) I think citizen safety must always come before petty politics. Times, Sunday Times (2011) For another day the process was hijacked by personal agendas and petty politics. Times, Sunday Times (2009) But petty politics should be put to one side. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Kids often think politics is boring and something they don't need to worry about. The Sun (2010) And people say politics is boring. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Who said that local politics was boring ? Times, Sunday Times (2011) While an admirable goal, it was not practical politics. Times, Sunday Times These matters are far better left to convention and practical politics than to legalistic constraints. Times, Sunday Times The irrepressibly talkative approach gave him lessons in practical politics. Times, Sunday Times But gradually, though never wholeheartedly, he accepted journalism rather than practical politics as his destiny. Times, Sunday Times After 23 years as a moral icon, isolated and irreproachable, she has stepped down from her pedestal to engage in practical politics. Times, Sunday Times The rapidly rising salience of the issue in presidential politics has taken some candidates by surprise. Times, Sunday Times Many feared that the televised debates would be an exercise in shallow, presidential politics. Times, Sunday Times Today, it’s hard to imagine a time in which comedy and presidential politics were separate spheres, but 1968 marked a turning point in television and political history. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I voted for her because I like and respect her brand of inclusive, progressive politics. Times, Sunday Times (2016) They represent just a part of the modern British progressive politics that we need to advance. Times, Sunday Times (2015) But in progressive politics we must always be restless for change. Times, Sunday Times (2007) She rarely speaks out in public since quitting politics but wanted to voice her sense of outrage. The Sun (2009) If he loses, he's promised to quit politics; if he wins, many expect he will call a general election in the spring of next year. Times, Sunday Times (2016) She said that she was quitting politics. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Far from enhancing liberty, it claimed, radical politics leads to its negation. The Times Literary Supplement His visions reflected the radical politics of his revolutionary era. Times, Sunday Times In a society of citizen consumers, to have nothing, to own nothing, by choice, might be the most radical politics of all. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At neither institution did he show any particular sign of his later proclivities, except possibly in his radical politics. Times, Sunday Times Radical politics answers the need for transcendence and provides a plausible, though erroneous, explanation for the existential shortcomings of human existence. Times, Sunday Times The trend for using household corporate names as descriptions seems to be gathering pace in regional politics. Times, Sunday Times Often there are local situations and celebrities from the local and regional politics who will be mocked, ridiculed and insulted. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are noble, educated and take part in regional politics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Shad serve notable symbolic roles in regional politics and culture. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But, the regional politics reigned over his acting talents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 My own emotional poverty led me into revolutionary politics, joining a diehard, cultist group simply to find some kind of escape in my life. Times, Sunday Times Few of his colleagues, by this stage, had any idea of his background in fringe revolutionary politics. The Times Literary Supplement His work was part of a strange swirl of strange beliefs that were part of the interest in political radicalism and revolutionary politics at the beginning of the 19th century. Times, Sunday Times They often had revolutionary politics, and supported explicitly revolutionary groups and individuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the eyes of the opposition, this attitude was a clear and cutting sign of the abandonment of any revolutionary politics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the Left, the Army was synonymous with the bombast of Empire, right-wing politics and governmental dirty work. Times, Sunday Times (2010) But they were not terribly au fait with extreme right-wing politics. Times, Sunday Times (2015) She became more involved in right-wing politics. Times, Sunday Times (2008) And what if these myths continue to shape politics? Times, Sunday Times How can we sort out what part of religion shapes politics? Christianity Today They shape the culture, and then the culture shapes politics. Christianity Today The law shapes politics, economics, and society in various ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He qualified as a doctor at Manchester University, where he became active in student politics. Times, Sunday Times (2006) There is something reassuringly eternal about student politics. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Her political life began with an interest in student politics. Times, Sunday Times (2008) I hadn't talked politics with him much. The Sun (2007) He was a keen fisherman, a devoted family man and loved to talk politics. Times, Sunday Times (2016) We drank wine and talked politics and really hit it off. The Sun (2016) There are some things that transcend politics. Times, Sunday Times He spoke in platitudes, trying to transcend politics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Is there such a thing as a professional ethic that transcends politics? Times, Sunday Times This was a perfect example of how sport transcends politics. The Sun His lyrics touch on subjects such as love, society, personal struggles, religion, and it has been said that his music transcends politics and religion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 None of them seems to care about being liked or sticking to tribal politics. Times, Sunday Times The gradual unfreezing of the class structure has weakened party identification and undermined tribal politics. Times, Sunday Times His guiding philosophy was an 'optimistic humanism' that went beyond class-based tribal politics. Times, Sunday Times He had made this his first business before entering tribal politics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A dominant force in regional tribal politics, they may have been organized as a loose regional chiefdom consisting of up to eight smaller local chiefdoms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 政治 Japanese: 政治 |
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