manœuvreの英語

名詞

manœuvre (複数形 manœuvres)

1. (UK, formerly Australia) Alternative form of manoeuvre
   • 1838 (date written)​, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, OCLC 1000392275, page 25:

     She delighted in schemes and in projects; she governed her husband by a series of manœuvres, whose only fault was their being entirely wasted; as a simple wish, openly expressed, would have answered every purpose.

   • 1850, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:

     […] but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked […]

   • 1886, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:

     Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manœuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 131:

     Peter, forging ahead with the bag, stopped to see the result of these manœuvres.

   • 1940, Winston Churchill, We shall fight on the beaches:

     […] we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre.

   • 1968, Conquest, Robert, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties‎^[1], Macmillan Company, LCCN 68-17513, OCLC 1169910711, OL 21272570M, pages 74-75:

     All early accounts agree that one of Stalin’s characteristics was ‘laziness’ or ‘indolence’ - which Bukharin impressed on Trotsky as Stalin’s ‘most striking quality’. Trotsky remarked that Stalin ‘never did any serious work’ but was always ‘busy with his intrigues’. Another way of putting this is that Stalin paid the necessary attention to the detail of political manœuvre.

   • 2003, David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 7:

     […] and the belief that states had increasingly little room for manœuvre if they wanted their people to benefit from it.