winds of change

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time. plural,plural-only

词源

Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.
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