| 单词 | hunger strike |
| 释义 | > as lemmashunger strike hunger strike n. the action of a person, esp. a prisoner, who refuses food in order to induce someone to yield to his demands. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > protest > by abstention from specific activity strike1889 hunger strike1908 1908 Westm. Gaz. 18 Mar. 5/1 The Central Prisons Administration has circularised the provincial Governors regarding the so-called ‘hunger strikes’, which are a characteristic feature of Russian prison life. 1916 W. J. Locke Wonderful Year xvii. 247 ‘I've been to prison.’ Martin.. asked if she hunger-struck. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. ii. 333 I had intended to stop my hunger strike as soon as my letter to the Consul had been sent off. 1970 Times 11 May 8/4 In February Feron went on hunger strike in protest but was taken ill and for a month existed only on drugs. 1973 Jewish Chron. 19 Jan. 44/5 He will stage a 48-hour hunger strike outside the Soviet Embassy. hunger strike b. transferred. A concerted abstention from a particular economic, physical, or social activity on the part of persons who are attempting to obtain a concession from an authority or to register a protest; esp. in hunger strike, rent strike (see hunger n. Compounds 5, rent n.1 Compounds 1c). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > fasting > [noun] > hunger-striking hunger strike1889 hunger-striking1916 the mind > language > speech > request > protesting or remonstrance > [noun] > a protest > strike strike1889 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > protest > by abstention from specific activity strike1889 hunger strike1908 society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > types of demonstration or protest counterprotest1595 student demonstration1856 lie-in1867 rent strike1881 hunger strike1889 march1908 protest march1914 occupation1920 lie-down1936 sit-down1936 sit-in1936 freedom march1947 vigil1956 freedom walk1957 swim-in1960 freedom ride1961 sitting in1961 sleep-out1961 fish-in1964 live-in1964 stall-in1964 sleep-in1965 Long March1967 love-in1967 talk-in1967 write-in1967 die-in1970 dirty protest1979 blanket protest1982 1889 Cent. Mag. Nov. 107/2 Here I heard..the narrative of the hunger-strike of the four women in the prison of Irkutsk. 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 220 Ive told our last four Prime Ministers that if they didnt make our marriage laws reasonable there would be a strike against marriage. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 8 Nov. 10/4 People with fixed incomes necessarily buy less. There are indignation meetings and ‘buyers' strikes’. 1937 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Aug. 8/1 The falling birth rate indicates that ‘mankind cannot be forced or bribed to produce children’... The present ‘birth strike’ will continue until necessary social readjustments are effected. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Jan. 22/1 Forty-eight tenants of an apartment building..started a ‘strike’ January 1, demanding rent reductions. 1965 B. Pearce tr. E. Preobrazhensky New Econ. 167 A consumers' strike is the limit which arises to state planning whenever the state's prices exceed the level acceptable to the private market. 1970 N.Y. Times 5 Feb. 38/6 The student organization also is lending moral and organizational support to..a widespread local rent strike. 1976 Gramophone Dec. 1052/1 The Lysistrata plot about the women stopping a war by going on sexual strike. < as lemmas |
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