| 单词 | counter-revolution |
| 释义 | counter-revolution From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishMilitarycounter-revolutionˌcounter-revoˈlution noun [countable, uncountable]PMREBELLION/REVOLUTIONpolitical or military actions taken to get rid of a government that is in power because of a previous revolution —counter-revolutionary noun [countable] —counter-revolutionary adjectiveExamples from the Corpuscounter-revolution• Two revolutions and a counter-revolution, then.• Part of Irina Volkova would believe in a cross that might cause people to rise up and start a counter-revolution.• Talk of revolution and counter-revolution has been banned from the rhetoric of the moment.• Unusually, there is no counter-revolution to the women's movement.• The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find - dismaying though that may be for party propagandists.• So the Thatcherite counter-revolution has redefined the idea of justice.• Once again, the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head.• By the mid-1970s collectivist policies and the constraints on government they represented were so deeply entrenched that a virtual counter-revolution was required. |
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