单词 | bamboo curtain |
释义 | > as lemmasbamboo curtain bamboo curtain n. [after iron curtain n.; compare chick n.2] a political and economic ‘curtain’ or barrier between territories under the control of the Communist régime in China and non-Communist countries; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle > to spiritual or social union or intercourse > specific iron curtain1877 bamboo curtain1949 Zion Curtain1969 1949 Time 14 Mar. 55 The Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. 1955 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 8 422 ‘One Body in Christ’ is written by a man who stands on the Reformed side of the theological bamboo curtain. 1957 Listener 6 June 903/2 We can't keep 400,000,000 people behind an economic bamboo curtain for ever. < as lemmas |
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