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A neutralist is a person who believes their country should stay out of other countries' quarrels and wars — not joining either side, not signing up to a military alliance. It is also used as an adjective: "a neutralist government", "neutralist foreign policy". The word carries a whole political position, not just a mood: neutralists argue that staying out keeps a country safe, keeps it free to trade with everyone, and keeps it able to help both sides talk. Their opponents answer that staying out of a fight between a bully and a victim is really a choice to help the bully. So the word is often used with a slight edge by people who disagree with it. It belongs mostly to writing about , history and international affairs — newspapers, textbooks, speeches — and you will meet it most often in accounts of the Cold War, when a number of countries refused to join either the American or the Soviet side. Note the definition you were given describes the state of not taking sides — that is really "neutrality" or "neutralism"; "neutralist" is the person who wants that, or the word describing them. Keep the family straight: neutral (the plain adjective, usable about anything at all), neutrality (the state), neutralism (the policy or belief), neutralist (the believer).
中立主義者;(形容詞)中立主義的
組成neutral + -ist ("a person who holds this belief or does this thing", from Greek -istes through Latin and French). Neutral itself goes back to Latin neuter, meaning "neither of the two" — ne "not" + uter "either of two".
同家族的字
- neutralthe base word — from Latin neuter 'neither of the two'
- neutralitysame root, with -ity making the state or condition
- neuterthe Latin word itself, borrowed straight into English grammar for the gender that is 'neither'
- artistshares the -ist ending for a person
原始詞典資料2 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。
neutralistadj
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Of or relating to neutralism.
neutralistnoun
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A person who advocates such policies.
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。