brinkmanship

英 ['brɪŋkmənʃɪp] 美 ['brɪŋkmən'ʃɪp]

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※ 提供单词"brinkmanship"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

brinkmanship (n.): also brinksmanship, with parasitic -s- and construction based on salesmanship, sportsmanship, etc.; from brink (the image of the brink of war dates to at least 1840).

Associated with the policies advocated by John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), U.S. Secretary of State 1953-1959. The word springs from Dulles' philosophy as outlined in a magazine interview [with Time-Life Washington bureau chief James Shepley] early 1956:
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
The quote was widely criticized by the Eisenhower Administration's opponents, and the first attested use of brinkmanship seems to have been in such a context, a few weeks after the magazine appeared, by Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson criticizing Dulles for "boasting of his brinkmanship, ... the art of bringing us to the edge of the nuclear abyss."

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1. There is a lot of political brinkmanship involved in this latest development.: 最新的进展涉及许多政治冒险政策的推行。

2. There is no gainsaying the fact that brinkmanship is a dangerous game.: 不可能否认这样的事实:即战争的边缘政策是一种危险的游戏.

3. The potential breakthrough comes at a moment of brinkmanship by the North.: 在北韩采取边缘外交政策的同时,这个问题有可能取得突破.

4. North Korean Leader Chooses Successor Amid Signs of More Brinkmanship.: 朝鲜领导人在更加奉行边缘政策的状态中选择了接班人.

5. As today's Wall Street Journal article notes, late - state negotiations often full of brinkmanship.: 正如今天《华尔街日报》文章所指出的, 谈判的最后阶段总是充满着边缘策略,最后反而会绝处逢生.