scorched-earth policy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strategy that involves destroying buildings, crops, and other resources that could be useful to opponents.
    — The Ethiopian Army waged a scorched-earth policy with saturation bombings and destruction of Eritrea's infrastructure.
  2. An intentional course of action that is drastic or ruinous. figuratively
    — The scorched-earth policy that voters adopted toward the Tories left them with no seats in Scotland and Wales and greatly reduced numbers through the prosperous swath called Middle England.

词形变化

scorched-earth policies plural scorched earth policy alternative

词源

See scorched earth.
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