单词 | mandela |
释义 | Mandelan. 1. attributive or in compounds. Of or relating to Nelson Mandela.Quot. 1973 refers to a supposed particle which a group of Leeds physicists named the ‘mandela particle’. ΚΠ 1973 New Scientist 31 May 532/3 Dr. Kellerman is hoping that the Soviet and Italian physicists will also join in the ‘mandela hunt’. 1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Sept. dc10 ANC 5B has contributed $500 to Mandela Inc., the nonprofit community service organization that sponsored the Aug. 11 Ivy City Day festival. 1985 City Press (Johannesburg) 23 June 1 Meet the Mandelarand—anti-apartheid campaigners' answer to the Krugerrand. Minted in their thousands in Holland, the brass Mandelarands are part of a massive campaign to make banks aware of the implications of trading in Krugerrands. 1990 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 12 Feb. 6 As ‘Mandelamania’ sweeps the world, two anti-apartheid leaders who recently spent a day at his prison home say the man is greater than the myth that has built around him. 2. Mandela Plan n. the African National Congress strategy, devised largely by Mandela, of organizing its membership into cells; adopted in the late 1950s as a means of ensuring the continued existence of the organization, should it be banned (more usually called M Plan). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > African politics > [noun] > South African politics > principles or policies Krugerism1897 toenadering1920 Mandela Plan1986 1986 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 4: Middle East, Afr. & Latin Amer. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 17 Dec. ME/8444/B/1 The pyramid must be the township underground committee under which should be the committees of every street. This is to follow the great Mandela plan,..which Comrade Mandela and the ANC was [sic] setting about in the late fifties. 1994 N. R. Mandela Long Walk to Freedom xv. 134 They instructed me to draw up a plan that would enable the organization to operate from underground. This strategy came to be known as the Mandela-Plan or, simply, M-Plan. 3. Mandela University n. colloquial Robben Island prison, Table Bay (Cape Town), where Mandela was held from 1964 to 1982, in reference to the political and historical debates entered into by Mandela and his fellow prisoners. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > specific prisons King's Bench1427 marshalsea1436 tunc1503 chateleta1513 clinkc1530 the Fleet1530 Bocardo1535 bastille1561 Poultry Compter1644 Whit1673 the Moor1869 the Ville1903 the Scrubs1923 H-block1976 Mandela University1986 1986 Nation (N.Y.) (Nexis) 22 Nov. 542 ‘The Island’ became ‘Mandela University’. 1997 Newsday (Nexis) 19 Oct. e10 A room where prisoners, inspired by Mandela's teachings, engaged in political and historical debates that earned the prison the nickname ‘Mandela University’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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