- 1鷹派的（主張用武力或強硬手段處理問題）
In , a hawkish person wants to use soldiers and force to deal with a problem between countries, rather than talking and making a deal. The picture behind the word is the hawk, a bird that hunts. News writers often set hawks against doves: hawks push a hard line; doves want peace. Though actually, hawkish does not simply mean “likes war.” A leader can be hawkish on one question — weapons, say — and much softer on another. It is a fairly formal word: you hear it in the news and in government talk more than at the dinner table. People also stretch it. A boss who is hawkish about prices is only being tough; there is no army in the story. Do not mix it up with hawk-eyed, which means watching very closely.
組成hawk（鷹；後來也指主張動武的人）+ -ish（帶有那種性質）。字面是「像鷹的」。
同家族的字
- hawkthe hunting bird, and later the hard-line politician
- hawkishnessthe noun: the quality of being hawkish
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hawkishadj/ˈhɔːkɪʃ/
- 1
Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour.
- Luisa locks her VW and crosses the scrub to the encampment. ... Several inhabitants approach but not in a friendly manner. “Yeah?” challenges a man, with a hawkish Native American complexion. “I presumed this was a public park.” “You presumed wrong. It’s private.”
- 2
Supportive of warlike foreign policy; bellicose; inclined toward military action.
- The Prime Minister could count on the support of a hawkish majority in Parliament to support the invasion.
- This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.
- 3
Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
- The Federal Reserve's recent statement on the slowing of inflation was interpreted as hawkish by the market.
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