| 单词 | make love, not war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmake love, not war b. make love, not war: used as a pacifist anti-war slogan or (more generally in other contexts) as an appeal for peace and compassion. Also in to make love, not war.Originally associated with protest in the mid 1960s (esp. amongst the hippie counterculture) against U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. ΚΠ 1965 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Mar. 19/1 You've seen those bumper stickers... And the latest in Berkeley, protesting Viet Nam, simply say ‘Make Love—Not War.’ 1966 Times 2 Sept. 12/2 They intend to distribute badges stating ‘Make Love, not War’—a slogan used by C.N.D. 1970 Washington Post 14 Aug. b1/1 People [at Woodstock] got together.., shared food, water and dope, enjoyed music and conversation and made love, not war. 1982 Times 27 Jan. 8/7 Dr Comfort..believes that it [sc. recreational sex] may drain away aggression, as in the hippy slogan ‘Make Love Not War’. 2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse xx. 158 All those big houses in the subdivisions are filled with former hippies who said Make Love Not War and Never Trust Anyone over Thirty. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Sport section) 10 Football is one of the few areas of national life where Arabs and Jews happily work and play together... ‘It shows people that we should make love and not war.’ to make love, not war b. make love, not war: used as a pacifist anti-war slogan or (more generally in other contexts) as an appeal for peace and compassion. Also in to make love, not war.Originally associated with protest in the mid 1960s (esp. amongst the hippie counterculture) against U.S. military intervention in Vietnam. ΚΠ 1965 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Mar. 19/1 You've seen those bumper stickers... And the latest in Berkeley, protesting Viet Nam, simply say ‘Make Love—Not War.’ 1966 Times 2 Sept. 12/2 They intend to distribute badges stating ‘Make Love, not War’—a slogan used by C.N.D. 1970 Washington Post 14 Aug. b1/1 People [at Woodstock] got together.., shared food, water and dope, enjoyed music and conversation and made love, not war. 1982 Times 27 Jan. 8/7 Dr Comfort..believes that it [sc. recreational sex] may drain away aggression, as in the hippy slogan ‘Make Love Not War’. 2005 M. O'Connor Bitch Posse xx. 158 All those big houses in the subdivisions are filled with former hippies who said Make Love Not War and Never Trust Anyone over Thirty. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Sport section) 10 Football is one of the few areas of national life where Arabs and Jews happily work and play together... ‘It shows people that we should make love and not war.’ < as lemmas |
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