Robinocracy

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Rule by British statesman Robert Walpole (1676–1745), especially between 1721 and 1742 when he is regarded as the Prime Minister of Great Britain. uncountable
    — London’s famous opening lines, in which the disenchanted Thales recalls the lost pride of Elizabethan England (“In pleasing Dreams the blissful Age renew / And call Britannia’s Glories back to view,” lines 5–6), combines the heady mood of moral indignation and patriotic nostalgia characteristic of opposition verse in the final years of the Robinocracy.

词源

From Robin (Robert Walpole’s nickname) + -ocracy.
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