Politic

(adj.) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; 'he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage'; 'the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error' .

(adj.) marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; 'it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels'; 'a politic decision'; 'a politic manager'; 'a politic old scoundrel'; 'a shrewd and politic reply' .

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• But your slave is politic. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Fred paused an instant, and then added, in politic appeal to his uncle's vanity, That is hardly a thing for a gentleman to ask. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was also politic, as leaving you with something overhanging you, to expect me again with a little anxiety on a day not named. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I should be sorry to imply that Mr. Skimpole divined this and was politic; I really never understood him well enough to know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• First then, of wisdom: the State which we have called into being will be wise because politic. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Farewell to courtly pleasure; to politic intrigue; to the maze of passion and folly! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I do it because it's politic; I do it on principle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• By Heaven, madame, politic! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Anyone who has had the smallest experience of municipal politics knows that the corruption of the police is directly proportionate to the severity of the taboos it is asked to enforce. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But all was not well, and, as has happened so often before, the politics of father and son were violently different. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There is a great deal of literal truth in that remark, for it has been the peculiar work of Bryan to express in politics some of that emotion which has made America the home of new religions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But genuine politics is not an inhuman task. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is no need, therefore, to generate dialectical disputes about the final goal of politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I am attempting to suggest some of the essentials of a statesman's equipment for the work of a humanly centered politics. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, a gentleman couldn't go into politics. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• These fine differences about the constitution of the Deity interwove with politics and international disputes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But politics was a personal drama without meaning or a vague abstraction without substance. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In both the Republic and Statesman a close connection is maintained between Politics and Dialectic. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• This is as true of the high politics of Isaiah as it is of the ward boss. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Politics, business, recreation, art, science, the learned professions, polite intercourse, leisure, represent such interests. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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