| 释义 |
wind of changeAn influence or tendency that cannot be resisted: the winds of change are blowing through agriculture...- However, thanks to the winds of change that swept Eastern Europe and Africa in the early 1990s, democracies are emerging, giving hope to a continent that has suffered for so long.
- The Soviet Union had imploded, the Berlin Wall had come tumbling down, and Africans were not indifferent to these winds of change.
- Then came the nineties; the doors of the economy were thrown open to winds of change from the global scene.
Popularized by Harold Macmillan's use of the phrase in a 1960 speech See parent entry: wind |