英语词汇“might is right”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P5. might is right (also might makes right and variants) [in some uses (e.g. in Hobbes) perhaps echoing a classical dictum; compare Plato Republic 340a; Lucan 1. 175] : the possession of power, rather than any moral consideration, determines the legitimacy of an action, policy, etc. Formerly also: †might overcomes, outgoes, or overgoes right.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [phrase] > by violence or force > force rules

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c1330 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 141 (MED) For miht is right, þe lond is laweles.

c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 124 (MED) The..philisofre seyde Myght es ryght.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 61^v Wo be to that realme, where might outgoeth right.

1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 3 Miht had alreddi overcumd riht.

1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. C3^v O manners, times, O world-declyning daies! Where might is right, and men do what they please.

a1618 J. Sylvester tr. H. Smith Micro-cosmo-graphia in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 792 Might makes Right in every Cause... Vnder-foot, men tread the Lawes.

1650 T. Hobbes De Corpore Politico 7 Inresistable Might in the state of Nature, is Right.

1657 Ld. Say & Seale Eng. Hist. Rev. (1895) 10 107 With them [your lawers] thearfore whear thear is might thear is right, it is dominion if it succeed, but rebellion if it miscarry.

1708 E. Arwaker Truth in Fiction i. xxix. 39 (heading) The Wolf and Lamb: Or, Might overcomes Right.

a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 163 What a thing is Might right mannag'd? 'Twill That Proverb brain, whose face doth ware this paint. (Might ore goe's Right.)

1790 J. Trusler Proverbs Exemplified 78 The law is so expensive... Might too often overcomes right.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. i. 7 But might is right, according to the fashions of the 'arth; and what the strong choose to do, the weak must call justice.

1857 Harper's Weekly 3 Jan. 9 He..was..told of the revival, in this case, of the old rule that ‘might makes right’; he was surrounded by a force sufficiently strong to retain him in spite of any attempt to make a rescue.

1915 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper Aircraft in Great War v. xiv. 252 The axiom that ‘might is right’ may apply very forcibly to the air wars of the future.

1973 Black Panther 24 Mar. 11/3 A criminal justice, which..has yet to move from its blood-stained ‘white might makes right’ philosophy.

1995 Outside Sept. 68/1 In many ways the war against fire serves as a reminder that American might makes right.

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释义	> as lemmas might is right P5. might is right (also might makes right and variants) [in some uses (e.g. in Hobbes) perhaps echoing a classical dictum; compare Plato Republic 340a; Lucan 1. 175] : the possession of power, rather than any moral consideration, determines the legitimacy of an action, policy, etc. Formerly also: †might overcomes, outgoes, or overgoes right. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [phrase] > by violence or force > force rules might is rightc1330 clubs are trump1584 c1330 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 141 (MED) For miht is right, þe lond is laweles. c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 124 (MED) The..philisofre seyde Myght es ryght. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 61^v Wo be to that realme, where might outgoeth right. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 3 Miht had alreddi overcumd riht. 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. C3^v O manners, times, O world-declyning daies! Where might is right, and men do what they please. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. H. Smith Micro-cosmo-graphia in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 792 Might makes Right in every Cause... Vnder-foot, men tread the Lawes. 1650 T. Hobbes De Corpore Politico 7 Inresistable Might in the state of Nature, is Right. 1657 Ld. Say & Seale Eng. Hist. Rev. (1895) 10 107 With them [your lawers] thearfore whear thear is might thear is right, it is dominion if it succeed, but rebellion if it miscarry. 1708 E. Arwaker Truth in Fiction i. xxix. 39 (heading) The Wolf and Lamb: Or, Might overcomes Right. a1729 E. Taylor Poems (1989) 163 What a thing is Might right mannag'd? 'Twill That Proverb brain, whose face doth ware this paint. (Might ore goe's Right.) 1790 J. Trusler Proverbs Exemplified 78 The law is so expensive... Might too often overcomes right. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. i. 7 But might is right, according to the fashions of the 'arth; and what the strong choose to do, the weak must call justice. 1857 Harper's Weekly 3 Jan. 9 He..was..told of the revival, in this case, of the old rule that ‘might makes right’; he was surrounded by a force sufficiently strong to retain him in spite of any attempt to make a rescue. 1915 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper Aircraft in Great War v. xiv. 252 The axiom that ‘might is right’ may apply very forcibly to the air wars of the future. 1973 Black Panther 24 Mar. 11/3 A criminal justice, which..has yet to move from its blood-stained ‘white might makes right’ philosophy. 1995 Outside Sept. 68/1 In many ways the war against fire serves as a reminder that American might makes right. extracted from mightn.¹ < as lemmas
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