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militant

noun
 
🔊/ˈmɪlɪtənt/
🔊/ˈmɪlɪtənt/
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  1. a person who uses, or is willing to use, force or strong pressure to achieve their aims, especially to achieve social or political change动武的；好战的；有战斗性的
    • Student militants were fighting with the police.激进的学生在与警察对抗。🔊🔊
    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘engaged in warfare’): from Old French, or from Latin militant- ‘serving as a soldier’, from the verb militare, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.

militant

adjective
 
🔊/ˈmɪlɪtənt/
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  1. using, or willing to use, force or strong pressure to achieve your aims, especially to achieve social or political change动武的；好战的；有战斗性的
    • militant groups/leaders好战团伙／头目
    • Some trade unions have a more militant approach to pay negotiations.一些工会采取更为激进的方式进行谈判。
    • Partly because of the militant feminist movement, women got the vote in 1918.妇女在1918年获得选票，部分原因是激进的女权运动。
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    • The women on the march were highly militant.游行队伍中的女性斗志昂扬。
    • Militant groups have been blamed for a series of attacks in the region.武装组织被指应为该地区发生的一系列袭击事件负责。
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    Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘engaged in warfare’): from Old French, or from Latin militant- ‘serving as a soldier’, from the verb militare, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.