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whig

/hwig, wig/US // ʰwɪg, wɪg //UK // (wɪɡ) //

党人,党员,党派人士,党派

Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    whigged, whig·ging.Scot.

    • : to move along briskly.

Examples

  • To him, Churchill “was radical precisely because he was conservative” and “essentially a buccaneering Victorian Whig.”

  • The party splinters, and out of the wreckage a new center-right “Whig Party” emerges.

  • For the first time in a century and a half, the Whig Party has successfully elected a candidate.

  • No, not the GOP, but the Whig Party, the original party of Lincoln.

  • Other members of Whig-Clio have included Aaron Burr, Woodrow Wilson, Samuel Alito, and Mitch Daniels.

  • Does the experience of the last ten years justify the country in placing confidence, on such a point, in a Whig Ministry?

  • The paper war was almost entirely carried on between two sections of the Whig party.

  • Since his return from exile, his influence had been generally exerted in favour of the Whig party.

  • But the Whig chiefs were not men to be duped by the professions of so notorious a liar.

  • Vernon was a zealous Whig, and not personally unacceptable to the chiefs of his party.