国际关系英语词汇大全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.乌托邦

　　乌托邦也称理想乡，是一个理想的群体和社会的构想，名字由托马斯·摩尔的《乌托邦》一书中所写的完全理想的共和国“乌托邦”而来。意指理想完美的境界，特别是用于表示法律、政府及社会情况。托马斯·摩尔在书中虚构了一个大西洋上的小岛，小岛上的国家拥有完美的社会、政治和法制体系。这个词用来描述一种被称为“意向社群”的理想社会和文学虚构的社会。这个概念也引出了其他的概念，最突出的概念就是反乌托邦。

　　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.辩证法

　　辩证法是一种化解不同意见的辩论方法。在两个或更多对一个主题持不同看法的人之间的对话，他们希望通过这种有充分理由的对话建立起对事物真理的认知。它讨论着自古以来都是印度与欧洲哲学中心的问题。此词汇应用于多种不同领域，包括哲学、自然科学与史学。

　　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.绥靖主义

　　绥靖主义，以绥(安抚)的手段促使靖(局势安定)，又称为姑息主义。中华民国政府在中国大陆时期曾设立过多个“绥靖公署”，意图维护地区局势。