Hunt 2 Flashcards
obtuse
salak, kalın kafalı, anlayışsız
“Recent policymakers have proven unexpectedly obtuse.”
clarion
boru ile çalınan müzik, zurna, yüksek ses ; açık, vazıh
“The electorate seems to like the clarion call for the nation to put aside doubts and reassume its proper role as world leader…”
saddle
eyerlemek, semer vurmak
“The electorate seems to like the clarion call for the nation to put aside doubts and reassume its proper role as world leader, wanting even less than do the policymakers to be saddled with a policy of caution and restraint appropriate to a complex and politically diverse world.”
foray
dalma, atılım, yağma, baskın, (raid)
“There is considerable evidence that this is not a hypothetical prospect, that indeed the first foray of the critics has already been turned back.”
glimpse
Görünüp kaybolmak, bir an için görme, anlık bakış
Critics preoccupied with recent policy have glimpsed the problem but hardly plumbed it.
plumb
tartmak, derinlemesine araştırmak, ölçmek
Critics preoccupied with recent policy have glimpsed the problem but hardly plumbed it.
thicket
sık ağaçlık, çalılık
American entry into the thicket of international politics…
underbrush
ağaç altındaki çalılık
to explain the conduct of policymakers as they followed the path deeper and deeper to the underbrush.
anemic
beti benzi atmış, solgun, kansız
pejorative
aşağılayıcı, küçük düşürücü
“George Kennan stands as a leading exponent of an approach to foreign- policy ideology that might best be labeled pejorative.”
sift
ayıklamak, elekten geçirmek, araştırmak, incelemek
an almost immediate opportunity to sift through his own experience and apply it to the history of U.S. foreign policy.
errant
serseri, maceracı, hatalı, yanlış
The burden of the work was that errant and inappropriate moralism and legalism defined the American approach to international affairs.
posture
duruş, hal, vücudun pozisyonu
nemesis
intikam, öç, gözü korkutan düşman
Legalism, the other nemesis to sound policy, was reflected in the application of domestic concepts of peacekeeping, adjudication, and contractual relations to an in- ternational sphere for which they were unsuited.
adjudication
hüküm verme, karar verme, yargılama
Legalism, the other nemesis to sound policy, was reflected in the application of domestic concepts of peacekeeping, adjudication, and contractual relations to an international sphere for which they were unsuited.