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单词 revanchism
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Definition of revanchism in English:

revanchism

noun rɪˈvan(t)ʃɪz(ə)mrəˈvɑn(t)ʃˌɪzəm
mass noun
  • A policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory.

    (尤指为收复失地的)复仇政策,复仇主义

    a recipe for deep future resentment, revanchism and renewed conflict
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Given the climate of hatred, violence, and revanchism ubiquitous in the refugee camps, the likelihood of meeting this requirement is nil.
    • Though the Cold War in Latin America began as a tense negotiation between American rationalism and Latin revanchism, Grandin suggests that it ended with the US careening towards the latter.
    • During the Cold War, the Soviet Union constantly reminded Poland, which had absorbed much of Germany's former eastern regions, that it was the Poles' sole protection against German revanchism.
    • Nazi revanchism and expansionism led to World War II, which resulted in the destruction of Germany's political and economic infrastructures and led to its division.
    • Now, conversely, Edie Falco does Jessie with an edgy, self-righteous revanchism, while Brenda Blethyn's earthier, more grounded Thelma bespeaks what might be presumed a likelier survivor.
    • While these members of the French peace movement confronted the same types of emotions that fueled Hugo's wrath, many turned away from the pessimism, chauvinism, and revanchism that characterized his response.
    • ‘For me personally, the political revanchism going on in Latvia is very painful,’ she said.
    • You would have thought after the last election that if there were any electoral revanchism it would come from Al Gore.
    • Thus the revanchism which was one of the chief political features of the 1920s found no sizeable supporters in post-1945 Europe.
    • The possible alternatives - fear of Russian revanchism, desire for self-defense, German enthusiasm for expansion, a wish for these countries to cement their status as stable democracies - are certainly not compelling.
    • As a result, the French peace movement linked revanchism to the creation of an international tribunal that would resolve the question of Alsace and Lorraine through juridical methods.
    • The novel's ultimate display of revanchism at Kwang's home emphasizes the national fantasies that would deny American identity's historical and contemporary hybridity.
    • The question of Alsace-Lorraine, and the spirit of revanchism to which it gave rise, placed Passy's peace group in an even more precarious position than before the war.
    • One indication of the growing security of the Republic in the late 1880s was the decline of revanchism, particularly among French middle-class youth.
    Synonyms
    conservatism, ultra-conservatism, the right, the right wing, the extreme right

Derivatives

  • revanchist

  • adjective & noun rɪˈvan(t)ʃɪstrəˈvɑn(t)ʃəst
    • And the atmosphere of today's Europe is different: Back then, the fervid, revanchist nationalism of the losers traded blows with the victory-happy nationalism of the winners.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Not only are the revanchists old fashioned, I am arguing, so are many of the revolutionaries.
      • Knock back your entire shot in one gulp, immediately inverting your glass over the table to allow the microscopic last drop to fall out, proving you're not a wuss or a reactionary revanchist Trotskyite provocateur.
      • France might, for example, have continued with the revanchist attitude to Germany which blighted the continent in the inter-war period.
      • In doing so they unwittingly created a powerful tradition of revanchist paramilitarism that was to explode in their faces in 1971.

Origin

1950s: from French revanche, 'revenge' + -ism.

Definition of revanchism in US English:

revanchism

nounrəˈvän(t)SHˌizəmrəˈvɑn(t)ʃˌɪzəm
  • A policy of seeking to retaliate, especially to recover lost territory.

    (尤指为收复失地的)复仇政策,复仇主义

    a recipe for deep future resentment, revanchism and renewed conflict
    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the Cold War, the Soviet Union constantly reminded Poland, which had absorbed much of Germany's former eastern regions, that it was the Poles' sole protection against German revanchism.
    • The possible alternatives - fear of Russian revanchism, desire for self-defense, German enthusiasm for expansion, a wish for these countries to cement their status as stable democracies - are certainly not compelling.
    • The novel's ultimate display of revanchism at Kwang's home emphasizes the national fantasies that would deny American identity's historical and contemporary hybridity.
    • Now, conversely, Edie Falco does Jessie with an edgy, self-righteous revanchism, while Brenda Blethyn's earthier, more grounded Thelma bespeaks what might be presumed a likelier survivor.
    • Nazi revanchism and expansionism led to World War II, which resulted in the destruction of Germany's political and economic infrastructures and led to its division.
    • You would have thought after the last election that if there were any electoral revanchism it would come from Al Gore.
    • Thus the revanchism which was one of the chief political features of the 1920s found no sizeable supporters in post-1945 Europe.
    • One indication of the growing security of the Republic in the late 1880s was the decline of revanchism, particularly among French middle-class youth.
    • Given the climate of hatred, violence, and revanchism ubiquitous in the refugee camps, the likelihood of meeting this requirement is nil.
    • The question of Alsace-Lorraine, and the spirit of revanchism to which it gave rise, placed Passy's peace group in an even more precarious position than before the war.
    • As a result, the French peace movement linked revanchism to the creation of an international tribunal that would resolve the question of Alsace and Lorraine through juridical methods.
    • Though the Cold War in Latin America began as a tense negotiation between American rationalism and Latin revanchism, Grandin suggests that it ended with the US careening towards the latter.
    • While these members of the French peace movement confronted the same types of emotions that fueled Hugo's wrath, many turned away from the pessimism, chauvinism, and revanchism that characterized his response.
    • ‘For me personally, the political revanchism going on in Latvia is very painful,’ she said.
    Synonyms
    conservatism, ultra-conservatism, the right, the right wing, the extreme right

Origin

1950s: from French revanche, ‘revenge’ + -ism.

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