demagogue
demagogue 英 [ˈdeməgɒg] 美 [ˈdeməgɑg]
n. 煽动者；煽动家；煽动政治家
名词复数:demagogues
- A demagogue is someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices.
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- n. 煽动者；煽动家；煽动政治家
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1. It also exposed Mr Thaksin as a demagogue who is ready to incite a revolt from his Dubai redoubt.
也暴露出他信作为煽动者想从其流亡地，迪拜，就激起一场叛乱。
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2. Dispense with the doctor by being temperate; the lawyer by keeping out of debt; the demagogue, by voting for honest men; and poverty, by being industrious.
节制饮食可以摒弃医生；不借债可以远离律师；投票给诚实的人可以摆脱蛊惑民心的政客；勤劳可以脱离贫穷。
- demagogue (n.) 1640s, from Greek demagogos "popular leader," also "leader of the mob," from demos "people" (see demotic) + agogos "leader," from agein "to lead" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move"). Often a term of disparagement since the time of its first use, in Athens, 5c. B.C.E. Form perhaps influenced by French demagogue (mid-14c.).
- demagogue (v.) by 1964, American English, from demagogue (n.). Related: Demagogued; demagoguing.
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