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Geopolitical describes ideas and activities about the way a country's place, land, and people shape its and its ties with other countries — or the study of that. A geopolitical question is not only 'Who is in power?' It is also 'Where are they, what do they sit on, who lives there, and what does that force them to care about?' Oil under the ground, a narrow sea, a long border, a huge population: these become political facts.
Geopolitical describes ideas and activitiesGeopolitical 用來描述一些想法和活動，about the way a country's place, land, and people shape its politics and its ties with other countries關於一個國家的地理位置、土地和人民，如何影響它的政治，以及它跟其他國家的關係——— or the study of that或是在研究這件事。 A geopolitical question is not only 'Who is in power?'一個地緣政治的問題，不只是「誰掌權？」It is also 'Where are they, what do they sit on, who lives there, and what does that force them to care about?'也包括「他們在哪裡、坐落在什麼上面、誰住在那裡、這又逼著他們必須在意什麼？」Oil under the ground, a narrow sea, a long border, a huge population地底下的石油、一道狹窄的海峽、一條長長的邊界、龐大的人口，these become political facts這些都會變成政治上的事實。
News writers love this adjective: geopolitical tension, a geopolitical risk, geopolitical consequences. It sounds serious and a little academic.
News writers love this adjective新聞寫作者很愛用這個形容詞：geopolitical tension, a geopolitical risk, geopolitical consequencesgeopolitical tension（地緣政治緊張）、a geopolitical risk（地緣政治風險）、geopolitical consequences（地緣政治後果）。 It sounds serious and a little academic它聽起來很嚴肅，也有點學術味。
Though actually people stretch it. Sometimes they only mean 'international' or 'about world power,' even when land and location are not doing much work in the sentence. The tidy meaning is about place and people as political forces; the loose meaning is just 'big world .'
Though actually不過其實，people stretch it人們會把它的意思拉得更寬。 Sometimes they only mean 'international' or 'about world power,'有時候他們只是想說「國際的」或「跟世界強權有關」，even when land and location are not doing much work in the sentence即使句子裡的土地和地理位置根本沒有起什麼作用。 The tidy meaning is about place and people as political forces嚴謹的意思是講地方和人民作為政治力量；the loose meaning is just 'big world politics.'鬆散的意思就只是「大範圍的世界政治」。
組成geo- (geographical: about a country's place on the earth) + political. Built as geo- + political.
同家族的字
- geopoliticsthe noun for the same idea
- politicalthe second half: about government and power
- geographygeo- here means 'about a country's place on the earth'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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。
geopoliticaladj
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Of or relating to geopolitics.
- Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.
- Call it boasting or benevolence, however, the response to the tragedy illustrates the era of “disaster diplomacy,” or the use of foreign aid for influence in a geopolitical competition.
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。