| 单词 |
non-co-operation |
| 释义 |
non-co-opeˈration
[non- 1.]
Failure or refusal to co-operate; spec. used as a means of resistance or protest, esp. against the British in India before 1947. Also attrib.
1795Nelson 17 Sept. in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VII. Add. 22 The non-co-operation of the British Fleet and the Sardinian Army. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last (1862) iv. 141 The most accurately nugatory labour is..that of which not enough is given to answer a purpose effectually... Also, labour which fails of effect through non-co-operation. 1920A. Besant (title) Gandhian non-co-operation; or, shall India commit suicide? 1922Telegraphic Corr. India 3 in Parl. Papers (Cmd. 1586) XVI. 578 The origins of the non-co-operation movement. 1937J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism vi. 91 The only possible creative issue for the German Socialist movement was by way of non-violent non-co-operation. 1946J. S. Huxley Unesco i. 7 The non-cooperation or even withdrawal of a number of nations. 1973C. Mullard Black Britain iv. xiii. 156 This resistance has been passive in the tradition of civil disobedience and of Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonco-operation.
Hence non-co-ˈoperate v. intr., to refuse to co-operate; non-co-ˈoperating ppl. a., non-co-ˈoperative a., that refuses or fails to cooperate; non-co-ˈoperator, one who practises or advocates non-co-operation.
1921Daily Tel. 28 Sept. 9/1 The leaflet..asks the Moplahs actively to non-co-operate with the Government. 1922J. T. Gwynn Let. 17 May in Indian Politics (1924) iii. 17 A Non-Co-operating politician. Ibid., Non-Co-operative propaganda. Ibid. 18 The first-raters may be looked for either among the Co-operators or among the practising Non-Co-operators. 1928Observer 19 Feb. 17/3 The non-co-operators expected to win in the division. 1958Punch 29 Jan. 187/2 The water-fowl are non-co-operative, bobbing about indistinguishably on the far side of the water. |
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