revanchist
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /ɹɪˈvæn(t)ʃɪst/
美 /ɹəˈvɑnt͡ʃɪst/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.
— The next day, newspapers across the political spectrum will express varying degrees of outrage at the president's discourtesy, ignorance, and lack of style; one will accuse him of being a revanchist.
形容词 adj.
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Seeking revenge or otherwise advocating retaliation, especially against a nation which has previously defeated and humiliated the revanchist party in war. Originally referred to the French indignation over losing Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.
— No longer did young German tourists in France or Holland have to pretend that they were Swedes, and no longer did the governments of Eastern Europe blame all their problems on the “revanchist West Germans”.
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词源
词源 1
From French revanchiste, from revanche (“revenge”) + -ist.
词源 2
From French revanchiste, from revanche (“revenge”) + -ist.
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