Hunt 2 Flashcards

1
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obtuse

A

salak, kalın kafalı, anlayışsız

“Recent policymakers have proven unexpectedly obtuse.”

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clarion

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boru ile çalınan müzik, zurna, yüksek ses ; açık, vazıh

“The electorate seems to like the clarion call for the nation to put aside doubts and reassume its proper role as world leader…”

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saddle

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eyerlemek, semer vurmak

“The electorate seems to like the clarion call for the nation to put aside doubts and reassume its proper role as world leader, wanting even less than do the policymakers to be saddled with a policy of caution and restraint appropriate to a complex and politically diverse world.”

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foray

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dalma, atılım, yağma, baskın, (raid)

“There is considerable evidence that this is not a hypothetical prospect, that indeed the first foray of the critics has already been turned back.”

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5
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glimpse

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Görünüp kaybolmak, bir an için görme, anlık bakış

Critics preoccupied with recent policy have glimpsed the problem but hardly plumbed it.

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6
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plumb

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tartmak, derinlemesine araştırmak, ölçmek

Critics preoccupied with recent policy have glimpsed the problem but hardly plumbed it.

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7
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thicket

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sık ağaçlık, çalılık

American entry into the thicket of international politics…

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8
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underbrush

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ağaç altındaki çalılık

to explain the conduct of policymakers as they followed the path deeper and deeper to the underbrush.

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9
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anemic

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beti benzi atmış, solgun, kansız

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10
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pejorative

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aşağılayıcı, küçük düşürücü

“George Kennan stands as a leading exponent of an approach to foreign- policy ideology that might best be labeled pejorative.”

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11
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sift

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ayıklamak, elekten geçirmek, araştırmak, incelemek

an almost immediate opportunity to sift through his own experience and apply it to the history of U.S. foreign policy.

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12
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errant

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serseri, maceracı, hatalı, yanlış

The burden of the work was that errant and inappropriate moralism and legalism defined the American approach to international affairs.

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13
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posture

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duruş, hal, vücudun pozisyonu

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14
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nemesis

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intikam, öç, gözü korkutan düşman

Legalism, the other nemesis to sound policy, was reflected in the application of domestic concepts of peacekeeping, adjudication, and contractual relations to an in- ternational sphere for which they were unsuited.

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adjudication

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hüküm verme, karar verme, yargılama

Legalism, the other nemesis to sound policy, was reflected in the application of domestic concepts of peacekeeping, adjudication, and contractual relations to an international sphere for which they were unsuited.

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16
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deplore

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üzülmek, -den acı duymak,

That policy, Kennan argued, rested on a deplorably sentimental attachment to China and…

17
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lapse

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zamanaşımına uğramak, sona erme, akıp gitmek

to enter on a crusade against evil in the world and then to lapse into disillusionment, its emotional energy spent against intractable power realities.

18
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buzzword

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tutulan söcük, moda sözcük