Hunt 1 Flashcards
precept
ilke, kural, kaide
“Vietnam loosened the hold of Cold War precepts shaped by Munich and Pearl Harbor,…”
lance
mızrak, neşter; mızraklamak, yarmak
“Foreign policy must be seen not as a lance but as a shield. It is not a vehicle for propagating our values or a pretext for projecting our fantasies…”
propagate
çoğaltmak, yaymak, propaganda yapmak
“Foreign policy must be seen not as a lance but as a shield. It is not a vehicle for propagating our values or a pretext for projecting our fantasies…”
pretext
bahane, kulp, mazeret göstermek
“Foreign policy must be seen not as a lance but as a shield. It is not a vehicle for propagating our values or a pretext for projecting our fantasies…”
gloss over
gizlemek, gözardı etmek, önemsiz göstermek
“Such national myths gloss over divisions and bind a society together.”
chauvinistic
şoven, aşırı milliyetçi
“flashfloods of arrogance and aggressiveness that overflow into chauvinistic and rigid foreign policies”
vain
boş, beyhude
“Policymakers will find themselves struggling in vain against “an emotional public clamoring to project their sense of self onto the rest of the world.””
clamor
arbede, gürültü, karışıklık
“Policymakers will find themselves struggling in vain against “an emotional public clamoring to project their sense of self onto the rest of the world.””
grapple
boğuşmak, yakalamak, kanca ile tutunmak
“That they do not grapple with the problem of ideology more fully is understandable.”
hobble
aksamak, köstek olmak, ayak bağı olmak
“Preoccupied with current policy problems, they are hobbled by the same lack of historical perspective that characterizes the public they address.”
vituperative
azarlayıcı, küfürbaz, sövüp sayan
“Suppose, finally, that a major assault on those ideas proves successful but in the process shakes national self-confidence and precipitates a prolonged and vituperative debate.”
flimsy
güçsüz, uydurma, hafif
“knowing whether the critics have as their target a flimsy tent city or a great citadel, whether their opponents are a tattered, dispirited band or a formidable host”
tattered
yırtık pırtık, paramparça, üstü başı dökülen
“knowing whether the critics have as their target a flimsy tent city or a great citadel, whether their opponents are a tattered, dispirited band or a formidable host”
inexpedient
uygunsuz, akılsız, münasebetsiz, yersiz
“Though such battlefield intelligence may seem inexpedient insofar as it depresses the enthusiasm of the insurgent forces at the outset, it may be indispensable to the success of the campaign.”
in ferment
kargaşa içinde
“American foreign policy has been in ferment for the past decade or more.”