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status quo

/kwoh/US // kwoʊ //

现状,维持现状,现况,状况

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the existing state or condition.

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Examples

  • It will soon prove too expensive to maintain the status quo.

  • Many of the people that seemed to have been drawn to it, at least in my world, for whatever reason couldn’t fit into the status quo.

  • Ronald Reagan, the original Republican disrupter of the political status quo, was good at talking to these voters.

  • In the 1980s, companies and investors around the world mobilized to deny apartheid South Africa the economic lifeline it needed to maintain its status quo of racial oppression.

  • If the status quo prevails, San Diego Community Power will use the grid infrastructure of SDG&E, whose corporate owner, Sempra Energy, is committed to international investments in liquid natural gas.

  • When the problem is already political, when the intolerable situation is the status quo?

  • Defenders of the status quo claim the old rules protect consumers.

  • But when she called back, Brinsley was determined to tall her about his minted screenwriter status.

  • Nothing,” Klein notes, “was more threatening to the education status quo in New York City than our charter school initiative.

  • In a country where talk is “cheap” and opinions are “a dime a dozen,” we give the facts special privileges and special status.

  • Nos duo Societate tuguriolum habemus ligneum, in quo vix posit mens commouere nos possumus.

  • Quo modo, quibusve auxiliis aut successu, Societas missionem ill in regione consecuta sit.

  • "I quite admit that; but you've always received a quid pro quo," the general snapped.

  • As the actions of slander and libel have been described, only two others require notice, mandamus and quo warranto.

  • And his status is determined rather by his relation to the family than by his relation to the service.