单词 | empire-making |
释义 | > as lemmasempire-making empire-making n. and adj. ΚΠ 1831 Morning Post 13 June He is heartily tired of Constitution-making, Empire-making, Loan-making, and Queen-making. 1894 Daily News 29 Jan. 5/2 Mr. Rhodes is an Empire-making man. 1938 M. J. Bonn Crumbling of Empire ii. 101 A decolonization movement is sweeping over the continents. An age of empire-breaking is following an age of empire-making. 1995 M. J. Schueller in L. Quinby Geneal. & Lit. iv. 49 When Melville published Typee in 1844, U.S. rhetoric on empire making was well established. 2007 R. Martin Empire of Indifference 2 The present terror war joins the complex legacy of empire-making race war that Hilferding identifies. < as lemmas |
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