| 单词 |
sea-power |
| 释义 |
sea-power
1. A nation or state having international power or influence on sea. Cf. power n.1 6 b.
1849Grote Greece ii. xxxix. V. 67 The conversion of Athens from a land-power into a sea-power. 1890Mahan Infl. Sea-power Hist. 225 Before that war [of the Spanish succession] England was one of the sea powers; after it she was the sea power, without any second. 1906W. M. Ramsay in Expositor Apr. 365 Tarsus..became a harbour and a sea power.
2. The strength and efficiency of a nation (or of nations generally) for maritime warfare.
The currency of the term in its more abstract use is due to Captain A. T. Mahan's book, Influence of Sea-power on History (1890). In a letter of 19 Feb. 1897, printed in E. Marston, After Work (1904) 257, Capt. Mahan states that the combination was deliberately adopted by him ‘in order to compel attention’.
1883Sir J. R. Seeley Expansion Eng. 89 Commerce..was swept out of the Mediterranean by the besom of the Turkish sea-power. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 574/1 Themistocles..the founder of the Attic sea-power. 1902Sir C. Bridge in Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 493/1 In the first and greatest of the contests waged by the nations of the East against Europe—the Persian wars—sea-power was the governing factor. |
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