| 单词 | pacific |
| 释义 | pa·cif·ic 1. a. < the effect of his pacific policy was that, in his time, no regular troops were needed — T.B.Macaulay > b. < make recommendations to the parties with a view to a pacific settlement of the dispute — U.N. Charter > 2. a. < cloud packs pass over it in soft, cumulus, pacific towers — Hugh MacLennan > b. < a naturally pacific, sociable man — Glenway Wescott > < the polite and pacific … cultures of India and China — Lewis Mumford > 3. usually capitalized < Pacific barracuda > < ferrying … troops to Pacific battlefronts — Howell Walker > specifically < the Pacific islands, east of Australia — L.F. de Beaufort > Synonyms: < the pacific temper, which seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force — Bertrand Russell > < adoption of the resolutions came at a pacific final session of the convention after three days of fierce dissension — New York Times > peaceable stresses enjoyment of peace as a way of life < the primitive state of man, peaceable, contented, and sociable — William Bartram > and may be used as the antonym of forceful or warlike < they told us … that if peaceable means failed, they would seize little Jule — Herman Melville > peaceful suggests absence of strife or contention as well as of disturbing influences < peaceful sisterhood, receive, and yield me sanctuary — Alfred Tennyson > pacifist and pacifistic concern peace only as contrasted with war; they refer to efforts to prevent or stop wars and to settle the issues involved by conference and compromise < pacifist means have been variously termed “nonviolent coercion”, “war without violence”, “passive resistance” — M.Q.Sibley > irenic concerns peace originally in connection with religious controversy and may refer to attitudes or measures likely to allay dispute < lived to see his synod adopt a very irenic attitude towards its former antagonists — J.M.Rohne > |
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