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Brinkmanship is a way of trying to win — especially in and diplomacy — by walking right up to the edge of a disaster and daring the other side to stop you. You pretend, or half-pretend, that you are willing to do something very dangerous (go to war, break off talks, let a deal collapse) so that they will give in first. The brink is that last edge. The word became famous in the Cold War, with nuclear threats, but people now use it more widely for any high-stakes game of chicken, even in business. It is a serious, news-level word, and it usually carries a warning: this tactic can work, and it can also go over the edge.
邊緣政策
組成brink (the border or edge) + -manship (skill, style, or special way of doing something in that area).
同家族的字
- brinkthe edge; brinkmanship is the tactic of standing on that edge
- gamesmanshipsame -manship ending for a sly way of playing to win
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
brinkmanshipnoun/ˈbɹɪŋk.mən.ʃɪp/
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governmentpoliticsThe pursuit of an advantage by appearing to be willing to take a matter to the brink (for example, by risking a dangerous policy) rather than to concede a point.
- The diplomat accused the other nation’s leader of brinkmanship for refusing to redeploy the troops along their nations’ shared border.
- They say that in ancient times the Romans used to take cold showers before deciding on important questions. Perhaps, this should be recommended to some excessively ardent supporters of the policy of brinkmanship.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。