单词 | political capital |
释义 | > as lemmaspolitical capital political capital n. the advantage over a political opponent to be derived from a specific situation. ΚΠ 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 1 They all turn moi, pauvre chétive, into political capital in the fund of Illiberals. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxii. 74 As insensible as an ox to everything he can't turn into political capital. 1991 N. Mailer Harlot's Ghost vi. ix. 1061 Goldwater seized the headlines. If we sent tractors to Castro, he said, our prestige ‘would have to sink even lower’. I couldn't believe he would use such a situation to make political capital. < as lemmas |
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