國際關(guān)系英語詞匯大全Unit 13

　　1.Utopia

　　A utopia is a community or society possessing highly desirable or near perfect qualities. The word was coined by Sir Thomas More in Greek for his 1516 book Utopia (in Latin), describing a fictional island society in the Atlantic Ocean. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and imagined societies portrayed in fiction. It has spawned other concepts, most prominently dystopia.

　　1.烏托邦

　　烏托邦也稱理想鄉(xiāng)，是一個理想的群體和社會的構(gòu)想，名字由托馬斯·摩爾的《烏托邦》一書中所寫的完全理想的共和國“烏托邦”而來。意指理想完美的境界，特別是用于表示法律、政府及社會情況。托馬斯·摩爾在書中虛構(gòu)了一個大西洋上的小島，小島上的國家擁有完美的社會、政治和法制體系。這個詞用來描述一種被稱為“意向社群”的理想社會和文學(xué)虛構(gòu)的社會。這個概念也引出了其他的概念，最突出的概念就是反烏托邦。

　　2.Dialectic

　　Dialectic (also dialectics and the dialectical method) is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to European and Indian philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues. The dialectical method is discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter guided by reasoned arguments.

　　2.辯證法

　　辯證法是一種化解不同意見的辯論方法。在兩個或更多對一個主題持不同看法的人之間的對話，他們希望通過這種有充分理由的對話建立起對事物真理的認知。它討論著自古以來都是印度與歐洲哲學(xué)中心的問題。此詞匯應(yīng)用于多種不同領(lǐng)域，包括哲學(xué)、自然科學(xué)與史學(xué)。

　　3.Appeasemen

　　Appeasement in a political context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict.

　　3.綏靖主義

　　綏靖主義，以綏(安撫)的手段促使靖(局勢安定)，又稱為姑息主義。中華民國政府在中國大陸時期曾設(shè)立過多個“綏靖公署”，意圖維護地區(qū)局勢。