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diplomat

noun
 
🔊/ˈdɪpləmæt/
🔊/ˈdɪpləmæt/
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  1.  
    (also old-fashioned diplomatist)
    a person whose job is to represent his or her country in a foreign country, for example, in an embassy外交官
    • Washington's top diplomat in Havana华盛顿驻哈瓦那的最高级别的外交官
    • a Western diplomat in Islamabad一名驻伊斯兰堡的西方外交官
    see also Chief Diplomat
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    • the chief Cuban diplomat in the United States古巴驻美国首席外交官
    • two of the world's most prominent diplomats世界上最杰出的外交官中的两位
    Topics Jobsc1, Politicsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • chief
    • prominent
    • senior
    • …
    verb + diplomat
    • be
    • serve as
    • work as
    • …
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  2. a person who shows skill at dealing with other people善于交际的人；通权达变的人；圆通的人；有手腕的人
    • You’ll need to be a real diplomat to persuade them to come to some agreement.您需要成为一名真正的外交官，才能说服他们达成某种协议。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • chief
    • prominent
    • senior
    • …
    verb + diplomat
    • be
    • serve as
    • work as
    • …
    See full entry
    3. Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French diplomate, back-formation from diplomatique ‘diplomatic’, from Latin diploma from Greek diplōma ‘folded paper’, from diploun ‘to fold’, from diplous ‘double’.