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单词 politic
释义

Definition of politic in English:

politic

adjective ˈpɒlɪtɪkˈpɑləˌtɪk
  • 1(of an action) seeming sensible and judicious in the circumstances.

    (行动) 明智的,讲策略的

    with infinitive I did not think it politic to express my reservations

    我认为把我的保留意见表达出来是不明智的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The all too visible wire that allows it to stand, if not to fly like Mary Martin, is, of course, theism, boldly asserted or watered down as deemed politic for various audiences.
    • It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong.
    • It is probably not politic to admit it, but if you are my friend you can get me to do a whole range of things outside my zone of ethical comfort just by applying enough emotional pressure.
    • Even if we could persuade every single theatrical liberal that it is in the best interest of the liberal agenda to behave in a more politic way, it would not make one bit of difference.
    • And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?
    • They get nothing but applause from me on that score, but I do wish they would tackle Europe, and other issues, with a little more honesty than they seem to believe is politic.
    • The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one.
    • Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
    • Europeans need to remember that in many important ways they are playing catch-up to America, and that it might be more politic not to repeatedly claim to be wiser and more mature than everybody else.
    • Foreign dignitaries found it politic to stay away.
    • It doesn't seem politic to ask the police whether they habitually patrol rap gigs wearing black SWAT-style jumpsuits and armed with machine guns.
    • So you have to become more politic, which is quite difficult for me.
    • It is not uncommon for such types to feel impelled to state their vision of the truth boldly and uncompromisingly in circumstances where it would be more tactful and more politic to keep silent.
    • But you'd understand if they thought it politic to pass.
    • Knowing Chris's sensitivity to criticism and the power he wields, it seems politic not to have this on videotape.
    • She was just a little offended by the implications in his words and was suddenly bored with his arrogance and decided to get rid all the noble-sounding, diplomatic and politic speeches.
    • And very smart and very politic, she was clad in white as sailors who were lining the deck - they were holding California flags and symbolizing their new home.
    • His second teacher was infamous - a man with an orderly, capacious, avaricious mind, who dealt in systems and series, though was not so politic as he might have been.
    • It would not have been politic to say ‘no’ to Celtic and Rangers, far better to allow for the possibility but in the context of more far-reaching changes that will not be tolerated by any of the four associations.
    • But these insurgent parties often quickly backslid on their founding principles when it became politic to do so.
    Synonyms
    wise, prudent, sensible, judicious, canny, well judged, sagacious, expedient, shrewd, astute, discreet, tactful, diplomatic
    recommended, advantageous, beneficial, profitable, gainful, desirable, advisable
    appropriate, suitable, fitting, apt, timely, opportune, propitious, provident
    1. 1.1archaic (of a person) prudent and sagacious.
      〈古〉(人)谨慎的,精明的
      Henry of Navarre was a resolute, active, and politick prince
      Synonyms
      prudent, prescient, foresighted, discerning, judicious, shrewd, percipient, provident, forearmed, canny
verbpoliticked, politics, politicking ˈpɒlɪtɪkˈpɑləˌtɪk
[no object]often as noun politickingderogatory
  • Engage in political activity.

    〈常贬〉从事政治活动

    the cumbersome bureaucracy and politicking of the European Community

    欧共体臃肿的官僚机构和政治活动。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was doing politicking in the manner of populist anarchists.
    • It has come to be thought of as a stinging insult to tell a party here that it is electioneering and politicking with the peace process.
    • If there is an art form to politicking, this guy was the best of all time.
    • There are those who see that initial verbal gesture as politicking.
    • Because of this we have lost touch with those we are politicking about.
    • But when he became disillusioned with what he saw on the inside of the old party politicking he dropped out to support independents.
    • Sounds like those volunteers were well within the 100-foot legal limit for politicking at the polls.
    • The legislature has proved less a law-making body than a platform for politicking and pressure by the various parties.
    • Rather than actually helping to administer the country, they spend most of their time politicking to promote themselves.
    • Yet there's a point about age here as well as one about politicking.
    • ‘Let us set aside bickering and politicking for at least one year,’ she said.
    • But they can also burn up time, serve as a forum for politicking, and end up ratifying mediocre plans.
    • This has the earmarks of the sort of backroom politicking that has marked some of the darkest chapters in American history.
    • They are the ones who have been organizing abroad for the past twenty years and have experience in politicking.
    • Why would he say that when he himself is politicking like a true politician with elections just around the corner?
    • Their policies and programs are far superior, but they are pikers compared to him when it comes to politicking.
    • It seems to me that this misses the whole point of politics and politicking - these things are not self-sustaining.
    • They were locations for politicking and intrigue.
    • Do they start politicking, if you will, start talking to each other, campaigning for votes or helping others that they want?
    • In an age of fear factor politicking, can the U.S. combat crime while keeping families together?

Derivatives

  • politicly

  • adverb ˈpɒlɪtɪkliˈpɑləˌtɪkli
    rare
    • Shrewdly and skilfully.

      a judge would weigh the matter politicly
      Asked for his favourite martial arts movie, he politicly chooses one from each of his heroes: Jackie Chan's Police Story, Jet Li's Once Upon a Time in China, Bruce Lee's Way of the Dragon, and Panna Ritthikrai's Born to Fight.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French politique 'political', via Latin from Greek politikos, from politēs 'citizen', from polis 'city'.

Rhymes

impolitic

Definition of politic in US English:

politic

adjectiveˈpɑləˌtɪkˈpäləˌtik
  • 1(of an action) seeming sensible and judicious under the circumstances.

    (行动) 明智的,讲策略的

    with infinitive I did not think it politic to express my reservations

    我认为把我的保留意见表达出来是不明智的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She was just a little offended by the implications in his words and was suddenly bored with his arrogance and decided to get rid all the noble-sounding, diplomatic and politic speeches.
    • It is not uncommon for such types to feel impelled to state their vision of the truth boldly and uncompromisingly in circumstances where it would be more tactful and more politic to keep silent.
    • But these insurgent parties often quickly backslid on their founding principles when it became politic to do so.
    • They get nothing but applause from me on that score, but I do wish they would tackle Europe, and other issues, with a little more honesty than they seem to believe is politic.
    • So you have to become more politic, which is quite difficult for me.
    • And very smart and very politic, she was clad in white as sailors who were lining the deck - they were holding California flags and symbolizing their new home.
    • It would not have been politic to say ‘no’ to Celtic and Rangers, far better to allow for the possibility but in the context of more far-reaching changes that will not be tolerated by any of the four associations.
    • Affecting someone's conscience by grace and restraint does not mean rolling over and playing dead, muttering meaningless politically correct platitudes, or remaining silent as many find it politic to do.
    • Even if we could persuade every single theatrical liberal that it is in the best interest of the liberal agenda to behave in a more politic way, it would not make one bit of difference.
    • The descent of property of every kind therefore to all the children, or to all the brothers and sisters, or other relations in equal degree, is a politic measure and a practicable one.
    • It doesn't seem politic to ask the police whether they habitually patrol rap gigs wearing black SWAT-style jumpsuits and armed with machine guns.
    • Knowing Chris's sensitivity to criticism and the power he wields, it seems politic not to have this on videotape.
    • Europeans need to remember that in many important ways they are playing catch-up to America, and that it might be more politic not to repeatedly claim to be wiser and more mature than everybody else.
    • The all too visible wire that allows it to stand, if not to fly like Mary Martin, is, of course, theism, boldly asserted or watered down as deemed politic for various audiences.
    • It is the metaphoric link between the melodramatic and the politic that America does so well yet, inevitably, gets so wrong.
    • His second teacher was infamous - a man with an orderly, capacious, avaricious mind, who dealt in systems and series, though was not so politic as he might have been.
    • And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?
    • But you'd understand if they thought it politic to pass.
    • Foreign dignitaries found it politic to stay away.
    • It is probably not politic to admit it, but if you are my friend you can get me to do a whole range of things outside my zone of ethical comfort just by applying enough emotional pressure.
    Synonyms
    wise, prudent, sensible, judicious, canny, well judged, sagacious, expedient, shrewd, astute, discreet, tactful, diplomatic
    1. 1.1archaic (of a person) prudent and sagacious.
      〈古〉(人)谨慎的,精明的
      Synonyms
      prudent, prescient, foresighted, discerning, judicious, shrewd, percipient, provident, forearmed, canny
verbˈpɑləˌtɪkˈpäləˌtik
[no object]often as noun politickingderogatory
  • Engage in political activity.

    〈常贬〉从事政治活动

    news of this unseemly politicking invariably leaks into the press
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Why would he say that when he himself is politicking like a true politician with elections just around the corner?
    • Yet there's a point about age here as well as one about politicking.
    • Because of this we have lost touch with those we are politicking about.
    • They are the ones who have been organizing abroad for the past twenty years and have experience in politicking.
    • There are those who see that initial verbal gesture as politicking.
    • In an age of fear factor politicking, can the U.S. combat crime while keeping families together?
    • They were locations for politicking and intrigue.
    • If there is an art form to politicking, this guy was the best of all time.
    • Rather than actually helping to administer the country, they spend most of their time politicking to promote themselves.
    • Do they start politicking, if you will, start talking to each other, campaigning for votes or helping others that they want?
    • Their policies and programs are far superior, but they are pikers compared to him when it comes to politicking.
    • She was doing politicking in the manner of populist anarchists.
    • ‘Let us set aside bickering and politicking for at least one year,’ she said.
    • Sounds like those volunteers were well within the 100-foot legal limit for politicking at the polls.
    • It has come to be thought of as a stinging insult to tell a party here that it is electioneering and politicking with the peace process.
    • This has the earmarks of the sort of backroom politicking that has marked some of the darkest chapters in American history.
    • It seems to me that this misses the whole point of politics and politicking - these things are not self-sustaining.
    • But when he became disillusioned with what he saw on the inside of the old party politicking he dropped out to support independents.
    • But they can also burn up time, serve as a forum for politicking, and end up ratifying mediocre plans.
    • The legislature has proved less a law-making body than a platform for politicking and pressure by the various parties.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French politique ‘political’, via Latin from Greek politikos, from politēs ‘citizen’, from polis ‘city’.

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