单词 | fellow-travel |
释义 | fellow-travelv. 1. intransitive. To sympathize with a specified person, party, or movement, esp. the Communist movement; to be a fellow-traveller (sense 2). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [verb (intransitive)] > sympathize with communism fellow-travel1944 1944 U. Sinclair Presidential Agent xxiv. 504 Just how he could go on pretending to fellow-travel with the Nazis while his wife fellow-traveled with the Reds was something Bess hadn't figured out precisely. 1963 Observer 18 Aug. 20/8 The Germans who fellow-travelled with Hitler in the 1930s were guilty of a gross dereliction of national duty. 1964 ‘W. Haggard’ Antagonists iii. 29 The high rich Left..[would] talk and they'd fellow-travel but they'd never know the passion. 2003 N. Rush Mortals xix. 246 In the U.K. he had fellow-traveled with a couple of Trotskyist sectlets. 2. transitive. To sympathize with or secretly support (the Communist movement) as a fellow-traveller (sense 2). rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > make communistic [verb (transitive)] > support as sympathizer fellow-travel1949 1949 Life 4 Apr. 39/1 Its host was the U.S.'s own National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions, dominated by intellectuals who fellow-travel the Communist line. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1944 |
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