politics

英 ['p?l?t?ks] 美['pɑl?t?ks]

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1、polit- + -ics.

politics 政治學，權術

來自politic,政治的，-ics,學科。即政治學，引申詞義權術，權謀之道。

politics: politics: [16] Politics is etymologically the art of ‘civil administration’. It is an English rendering of Greek tà polītiká ‘affairs of state’. Greek polītikós ‘of the city or state, civil, political’ was a derivative of polítēs ‘citizen’, which in turn came from pólis ‘city, state’ (source also of English police and policy and related to Sanskrit pūr ‘stronghold, fortified place’). It passed into English via Latin polīticus and Old French politique as politic [15], which originally meant ‘political’ as well as ‘judicious’ (political was coined in the 16th century).
=> cosmopolitan, metropolis, police, policy
politics (n.): 1520s, "science of government," from politic (adj.), modeled on Aristotle's ta politika "affairs of state," the name of his book on governing and governments, which was in English mid-15c. as "Polettiques." Also see -ics.
Politicks is the science of good sense, applied to public affairs, and, as those are forever changing, what is wisdom to-day would be folly and perhaps, ruin to-morrow. Politicks is not a science so properly as a business. It cannot have fixed principles, from which a wise man would never swerve, unless the inconstancy of men's view of interest and the capriciousness of the tempers could be fixed. [Fisher Ames (1758-1808)]
Meaning "a person's political allegiances or opinions" is from 1769.

2. The film takes no position on the politics of Northern Ireland.: 這部電影未在北愛爾蘭政治問題上選擇站邊。

3. But that doesn't mean this brand of politics is dead or dying.: 但那并不意味著這種政治主張已經或正在消亡。

4. Now politics is all about the right haircut and a sharp suit.: 現在政界講究的無非是合適的發型和時髦的衣著。

5. The Christian right has been steadily gaining ground in state politics.: 基督教右翼組織在國家政治中逐漸獲得越來越廣泛的支持。