politic
英 ['pɒlɪtɪk]
美['pɑlətɪk]
- adj. 精明的；有策略的；狡猾的；审慎的
- vi. 拉选票
英英释意
- 1. marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness;
- "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"
- "a politic decision"
- "a politic manager"
- "a politic old scoundrel"
- "a shrewd and politic reply"
- 2. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication;
- "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"
- "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"
- "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"
- "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound