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revolt

/ri-vohlt/US // rɪˈvoʊlt //UK // (rɪˈvəʊlt) //

叛乱,叛变,造反,起义

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
    • : to turn away in mental rebellion, utter disgust, or abhorrence: He revolts from eating meat.
    • : to rebel in feeling: to revolt against parental authority.
    • : to feel horror or aversion: to revolt at the sight of blood.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to affect with disgust or abhorrence: Such low behavior revolts me.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of revolting; an insurrection or rebellion.
    • : an expression or movement of spirited protest or dissent: a voter revolt at the polls.

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Examples

  • The three-page letter arrived at GameStop’s Texas headquarters 18 months before the company unexpectedly emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street and the latest symbol of a widening populist revolt against entrenched elites.

  • Humans were doomed in the play even before Radius led the revolt.

  • Chekheria graduated college in Tbilisi with a law degree just a year before another revolt, the Rose Revolution of late 2003.

  • In 1794, George Washington himself led a militia of 13,000 men into Pennsylvania to put down an anti-tax revolt.

  • The post Facebook in the age of revolt appeared first on Digiday.

  • The ISI came to the CIA for assistance in fostering a revolt that had developed in the Afghan countryside against Communist rule.

  • A political leader told us parliament won't do anything unless people revolt.

  • Initially, Truth Revolt printed that Dunham was 17 when this event occurred (she was 7).

  • Fallin reversed course on that as well, but not before a mini-revolt grew among suburban parents.

  • A problem far more pressing for the dynasty was the Taiping revolt, which ran from 1850 to 1864 and left tens of millions dead.

  • The rapid spread of the revolt was not a whit less marvelous than its lack of method or cohesion.

  • Yet, so curiously constituted is the native mind, the blowing-up of the magazine was the final tocsin of revolt.

  • The news of Bruce's revolt and the death of Comyn roused Edward into full martial vigour.

  • General Pio del Pilar slept in the city every night, ready to give the rocket-signal for revolt.

  • In vain he warned the King that this was not a revolt but a revolution; the counsels of Polignac were all powerful.