| 单词 | two nation |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwo nation two nation n. (also two nations) used, chiefly attributive, with reference to two irreconcilable groups or factions within a nation. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > nation divided in two by social inequality two nation1845 society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > side or cause > two irreconcilable two nation1845 1711 J. Addison in Spectator No. 125 There cannot a greater Judgment befall a Country than such a dreadful Spirit of Division as rends a Government into two distinct People, and makes them greater Strangers and more averse to one another, than if they were actually two different Nations.] 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. ii. v. 149 Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were..inhabitants of different planets... The rich and the poor. 1913 Times 8 May 10/3 Rightly or wrongly, the Protestants of Ulster hold to the ‘two nations’ theory. 1958 O. Caroe Pathans xxvi. 434 Only when the British Government's move to bring British authority to an end acquired a momentum so unmistakable that even the unbelieving were compelled to read the signs..was the two-nation theory translated into practical politics. 1976 Equals Oct. 1/5 In contemporary Britain the Two Nations are not so obviously the rich and the poor or the blacks and the whites or the townspeople and the country people, as the urban deprived and the rest of us. < as lemmas |
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