status quo

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌsteɪ.təs ˈkwəʊ/    美 /ˌstæt.əs ˈkwoʊ/|[ˌstæɾ.əs ˈkwoʊ]|/ˌsteɪ.təs ˈkwoʊ/|[ˌsteɪ.ɾəs ˈkwoʊ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of things; the way things are, as opposed to the way they could be; the existing state of affairs.
    — “As a black woman,” Jemisin tells me, “I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful, the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. With epic fantasy there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative, in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.”

词形变化

status quos plural statuses quo plural,rare stati quo hypercorrect,plural,rare statu quo alternative status in quo alternative

词源

From Latin status (“state”) (sometimes used in the ablative statū) + quō (“in which”), the ablative of quī (“which”).
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