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单词 caudillo
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Definition of caudillo in English:

caudillo

nounPlural caudillos kaʊˈdiːjəʊkôˈdē(y)ō
  • (in Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries) a military or political leader.

    (西班牙及其他西班牙语国家的)元首,军事(或政治)领导人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most important, the MVR is governed not by institutional rules, but by the personal predominance of a charismatic caudillo.
    • In fact, until 1935 Venezuela had mainly been lead by strong military caudillos.
    • In 1871, a liberal caudillo or military dictator, Justo Rufino Barrios, took power and ruled as president from 1873 to 1885.
    • Borges was deep down an old-fashioned liberal, however, who despised the Spanish-American tradition of the caudillo (political strongman) and its vulgar populism.
    • The authors use this model to illustrate the rise of local caudillos and, after the railroad lowered transportation costs, the eventual consolidation of power in Buenos Aires.
    • Panama's struggles were played on the world stage, and its caudillos were world players.
    • The recent examples of Fujimori in Peru and Menem in Argentina, in particular, demonstrate that civilians too can be like caudillos (military strongmen).
    • Historically, land was obtained through titles given by Spanish and Portuguese representatives, distributed by caudillos, or informally occupied.
    • Despite the quite significant role of labor confederations, political life in Honduras has been dominated by civilian caudillos and military strongmen.
    • The first of the strong-armed leaders called caudillos, Pedro Santana became president.
    • Political life is focused on caudillos within a contemporary system of coalitions that features from seven to twenty political parties.
    • He cites Elizardo Sánchez, a prominent island dissident, saying: ‘When the days of charismatic caudillos are over, their ideologies are also over.’
    • His study of the caudillos focuses on Angel Vicente Penaloza, known as El Chacho, ‘The Boy’ (although he was approaching seventy years old).
    • Characteristically, the dictatorship co-opted or eliminated political opponents and regional caudillos or bosses.
    • In 1955, he returned to Spain and in the 1970s painted a portrait of Franco's granddaughter, not only delivering the painting personally to the caudillo, but also publicly endorsing him.
    • Their fortunes are being revived with the feeling, increasingly common in Peru and elsewhere, that only a caudillo, the classic Latin strongman, can solve the longstanding problems that plague the region.
    • Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
    • This prosperity also strengthened the local caudillo, Santiago Vidaurri, who dominated the Northeast of Mexico from 1855 to the end of the French occupation.
    • No leader of any underdeveloped country of any size has been a world figure as long as the Cuban caudillo.
    • According to the historian Prescott, Pizarro, the caudillo, spent a million pesos in gold to equip an army to fight La Gasca, the Pacifier, whose fleet was battered by a storm but arrived safely on the equatorial coasts.

Origin

Spanish, from late Latin capitellum, diminutive of Latin caput 'head'. The title El Caudillo, 'the leader', was assumed by General Franco of Spain in 1938.

Definition of caudillo in US English:

caudillo

nounkôˈdē(y)ō
  • (in Spanish-speaking regions) a military or political leader.

    (西班牙及其他西班牙语国家的)元首,军事(或政治)领导人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In 1871, a liberal caudillo or military dictator, Justo Rufino Barrios, took power and ruled as president from 1873 to 1885.
    • His study of the caudillos focuses on Angel Vicente Penaloza, known as El Chacho, ‘The Boy’ (although he was approaching seventy years old).
    • This prosperity also strengthened the local caudillo, Santiago Vidaurri, who dominated the Northeast of Mexico from 1855 to the end of the French occupation.
    • Borges was deep down an old-fashioned liberal, however, who despised the Spanish-American tradition of the caudillo (political strongman) and its vulgar populism.
    • Most important, the MVR is governed not by institutional rules, but by the personal predominance of a charismatic caudillo.
    • Historically, land was obtained through titles given by Spanish and Portuguese representatives, distributed by caudillos, or informally occupied.
    • No leader of any underdeveloped country of any size has been a world figure as long as the Cuban caudillo.
    • The first of the strong-armed leaders called caudillos, Pedro Santana became president.
    • Their fortunes are being revived with the feeling, increasingly common in Peru and elsewhere, that only a caudillo, the classic Latin strongman, can solve the longstanding problems that plague the region.
    • The recent examples of Fujimori in Peru and Menem in Argentina, in particular, demonstrate that civilians too can be like caudillos (military strongmen).
    • He cites Elizardo Sánchez, a prominent island dissident, saying: ‘When the days of charismatic caudillos are over, their ideologies are also over.’
    • Political life is focused on caudillos within a contemporary system of coalitions that features from seven to twenty political parties.
    • The authors use this model to illustrate the rise of local caudillos and, after the railroad lowered transportation costs, the eventual consolidation of power in Buenos Aires.
    • Panama's struggles were played on the world stage, and its caudillos were world players.
    • According to the historian Prescott, Pizarro, the caudillo, spent a million pesos in gold to equip an army to fight La Gasca, the Pacifier, whose fleet was battered by a storm but arrived safely on the equatorial coasts.
    • Despite the quite significant role of labor confederations, political life in Honduras has been dominated by civilian caudillos and military strongmen.
    • Characteristically, the dictatorship co-opted or eliminated political opponents and regional caudillos or bosses.
    • In 1955, he returned to Spain and in the 1970s painted a portrait of Franco's granddaughter, not only delivering the painting personally to the caudillo, but also publicly endorsing him.
    • Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
    • In fact, until 1935 Venezuela had mainly been lead by strong military caudillos.

Origin

Spanish, from late Latin capitellum, diminutive of Latin caput ‘head’. The title El Caudillo, ‘the leader’, was assumed by General Franco of Spain in 1938.

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