At its heart, political is about power — who holds it, who wants it, and how people manoeuvre to get and keep it. The most concrete picture is the running of a country (governments, parties, elections), but the same word stretches to any place where people jostle for power over each other.

可以想成 political 的核心畫面比較像「權力的遊戲」:誰握有權力、誰想要、人們怎麼出招去爭取和保住它。最具體的版本是一個國家怎麼被治理——政府、政黨、選舉那一套;但同一個字也能延伸到任何「人和人之間在角力、爭主導權」的場合,從辦公室到社團都算。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

politicaladj/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/

  • 1

    Concerning or relating to politics, the art and process of governing.

    • Political principles are rarely absolute, as political logic holds an imperfect result by compromise is better than a theoretically perfect abstention from the political process in the opposition.
    • As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • 2

    Concerning a polity or its administrative components.

    • Good political staff is hard to find, they may neither be ambitious and corrupted by power nor tempted by private sector careers.
  • 3

    derogatoryInappropriately motivated by political calculation, as it pertains to elections, power dynamics, ideologies, etc.

    • The media alleged that the Federal Reserve chairman’s decision to cut rates before the election was political.
  • 4

    Of or relating to views about social relationships that involve power, standing, influence or conflict.

  • 5

    Interested in politics.

politicalnoun/pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/

  • 1

    A political agent or officer.

    • One such officer was Count Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political, who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle his country's scores with the British.
  • 2

    A publication focusing on politics.

  • 3

    A political prisoner.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。