movement [ 'mu:vmənt] n.动作，活动；移动
movement ['mu:vmənt] 运动,活动
movement [ 'mu:vmənt] n．（交响乐）乐章
movement ['mu:vmənt] 移动
不结盟运动 non-aligned movement
女权运动 movement for women's rights
五讲四美三热爱 the movement of "five stresses, four points of beauty and three loves"(The five stresses are: stress on decorum, manners, hygiene, discipline and morals. The four points of beauty are: beauty of the mind, language, behavior adn the enviornment. The three loves are: love of the motherland, socialism and the Communist Party.)
洋务运动 Westernization Movement
Clock Movement 钟芯
Additional social stresses may also occur because of the population explosion or problems arising from mass migration movements-themselves made relatively easy nowadays by modern means of transport.
由于人口的猛增或大量人口流动（现代交通工具使这种流动相对容易）引发的种种问题也会对社会造成新的压力。
Communist Movement
运动人体科学 Human Movement Science
中国基督教“三自”爱国运动委员会 ThreeSelf Patriotic Movement Committee of the Protestant Churches of China
不结盟运动 Non-Aligned Movement (NPU)
They were required to take part in the literacy movement.
他们被要求参加识字运动。
His job is to observe the movements of clouds and the changes in temperature.
他的工作就是观察云的移动和温度的变化。
Scientists watch the moon to get data about its movement.
科学家们观察月亮，以收集其运行的数据。
Although we apparently have a need for REM sleep, judging from the fact that our bodies automatically compensate for a loss of it, what REM sleep actually does for us is not clear.
从我们的身体能够自动地对损失作出补偿这个事来看，尽管我们明显地需要REM Crapid eye movement睡眠，但REM睡眠对我们的身体有什么作用还不清楚。
The police have been observing his movements.
警方一直监视着他的一举一动。
Movement unsharpness 移动不清晰度
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ingnorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, American leader of non-violent civil right movement
世界上再也没有比实实在在的无知和认认真真的愚蠢更危险的了。
美国非暴力民权运动领袖马丁?路德?
REM rapid eye movement
按 [àn] /to press (with the hand)/to push/to control/to restrain/to check/pressing down (brush movement in painting)/according to/in the light of/
侧锋 [cè fēng] /oblique attack (brush movement in painting)/
动态 [dòng tài] /development/trend/dynamic state/movement/moving/
动作 [dòng zuò] /movement/motion/action/
法轮功 [fǎ lún gōng] /Falungong (China spiritual movement)/
横笔 [héng bǐ] /bristles lying down (brush movement in painting)/
局限 [jú xiàn] /(v) limit the movement or confine sth/
民运 [mín yùn] /civil transport/movement aimed at the masses/democracy movement (abbr.)/
起来 [qǐ lai ] /beginning or continuing an action/upward movement/stand up/
什叶 [shí yè] /Shii (a movement in Islam)/
手脚 [shǒu jiǎo] /movement of limbs/action/trick/
手足 [shǒu zú] /movement/
移动 [yí dòng] /mobile/movement/to move/to shift/
运动 [yùn dòng] /movement/campaign/sports/
折笔 [zhé bǐ] /against the bristles (brush movement in painting)/
正锋 [zhèng fēng] /frontal attack (brush movement in painting)/
Leaders of the animal rights movement target biomedical research because it depends on public funding, and few people understand the process of health care research.
动物权利运动的领导者将矛头指向生物医学研究，原因在于它依赖公共资金的资助，并且很少有人懂得医学研究的过程。
Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched.
但是合并运动必须受到严密监视这个事实仍然存在。
When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal.
当一场新的艺术运动形成某种时尚时，理应弄清其倡导者的目标所在，因为无论他们的准则在今天看来是多么牵强附会、不可思议，将来都有可能被视为正常的。
With regard to Futurist poetry, however, the case is rather difficult, for whatever Futurist poetry may be — even admitting that the theory on which it is based may be right — it can hardly be classed as Literature.
然而，就未来派诗歌而言，情况却相当不同，因为无论未来派诗歌为何物——即使承认其理论根据可能正确，也很难称之为文学。
Not all that shift can be attributed to the movement out of the snow belt, census officials say.
普查官员说，并非所有这些人口迁移都是为了离开寒冷地带。
Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too — and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday's "baby boom" generation reached its child-bearing years.
不断涌入的移民潮，还有以前“生育高峰”出生的那些孩子也已到了生育年龄，这些都发挥着作用。
Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases the movement of the plates past them has left trails of dead volcanoes.
大多数热点移动非常缓慢，有时，板块滑过这些热点便留下了死火山的痕迹。
The hot spots and their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.
热点及其火山痕迹是板块移动的标志。
But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia — where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.
但这一潮流已无法逆转。在澳大利亚，人口老龄化，延长寿命技术和公众态度的变化都发挥着各自的作用。其他州也将考虑制定类似的法律来处理安乐死问题。
In the US and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.
在美国和加拿大，死亡权利运动正在积蓄力量。观察家们正在等待多米诺骨牌产生的效应。
All through the nineteenth century, America, Africa, India, Australia and parts of Europe were being developed by British capital, and British shareholders were thus enriched by the world's movement towards industrialisation.
整个19世纪，美洲、非洲、印度、澳洲及欧洲的部分地区都靠英国的资本发展起来，而英国股东则因世界性的工业化而大发其财。
{adj: Catalan} relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants
"Catalan independence movement"
{adj: Zionist} relating to or characteristic of Zionism
"the Zionist movement"
{adj: apractic, apraxic} having uncoordinated muscular movements, symptomatic of a CNS disorder
{adj: attributable} capable of being attributed
"the collapse of the movement was attributable to a lack of morale"
"an idea attributable to a Russian"
<-> unattributable
{adj: autobiographical, autobiographic} relating to or in the style of an autobiography
"they compiled an autobiographical history of the movement"
{adj: automotive, self-propelled, self-propelling} containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement
"a self-propelled vehicle"
{adj: awkward} lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance
"an awkward dancer"
"an awkward gesture"
"too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"
"his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
<-> graceful
{adj: bidirectional} reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions
<-> unidirectional
{adj: big, large, prominent} conspicuous in position or importance
"a big figure in the movement"
"big man on campus"
"he's very large in financial circles"
"a prominent citizen"
{adj: binding, constricting} hindering freedom of movement
"tight garments are uncomfortably binding"
{adj: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed} lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
"a bumbling mechanic"
"a bungling performance"
"ham-handed governmental interference"
"could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
{adj: clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive} preventing movement
"the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street"
{adj: convulsive, spasmodic, spastic} affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
"convulsive motions"
"his body made a spasmodic jerk"
"spastic movements"
{adj: coordinated, co-ordinated} being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements
"she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated"- Mary McCarthy
{adj: crabwise, sideways} (of movement) at an angle
{adj: deft, dexterous, dextrous} skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
"a deft waiter"
"deft fingers massaged her face"
"dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"
{adj: democratic, popular} representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large
"democratic art forms"
"a democratic or popular movement"
"popular thought"
"popular science"
"popular fiction"
{adj: ecumenic, oecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenical} concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
"ecumenical thinking"
"ecumenical activities"
"the ecumenical movement"
{adj: elegant} displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution
"an elegant dancer"
"an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"
{adj: existentialist} relating to or involving existentialism
"existentialist movement"
"existentialist philosophy"
"the existentialist character of his ideas"
{adj: fluent, fluid, liquid, smooth} smooth and unconstrained in movement
"a long, smooth stride"
"the fluid motion of a cat"
"the liquid grace of a ballerina"
{adj: flying} designed for swift movement or action
"a flying police squad is trained for quick action anywhere in the city"
{adj: forward} of the transmission gear causing forward movement in a motor vehicle
"in a forward gear"
<-> reverse
{adj: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy} lacking grace in movement or posture
"a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"
"clumsy fingers"
"what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"
"heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
{adj: graceful} characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
<-> awkward
{adj: grassroots} of or involving the common people as constituting a fundamental political and economic group
"a grassroots movement for nuclear disarmament"
{adj: heavy-footed} (of movement) lacking ease or lightness
"his tired heavy-footed walk"
<-> light-footed
{adj: hot, raging} characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense
"the fighting became hot and heavy"
"a hot engagement"
"a raging battle"
"the river became a raging torrent"
{adj: immobile} not capable of movement or of being moved
<-> mobile
{adj: jittery} characterized by jerky movements
"a jittery ride"
{adj: leaden, plodding} (of movement) slow and laborious
"leaden steps"
{adj: light-footed} (of movement) having a light and springy step
"a light-footed girl"
<-> heavy-footed
{adj: light} designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
"light aircraft"
"a light truck"
{adj: maladroit} not adroit
"a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"
"a maladroit translation"
"maladroit propaganda"
<-> adroit
{adj: monolithic} characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity
"a monolithic society"
"a monolithic worldwide movement"
{adj: motile} (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement
{adj: nervous} easily agitated
"quick nervous movements"
{adj: nonmotile, immotile} (of spores or microorganisms) not capable of movement
{adj: nonrepetitive} marked by the absence of repetition
"nonrepetitive DNA sequence"
"nonrepetitive dance movements"
<-> repetitive
{adj: nontranslational} of or relating to movement that is not uniform or not without rotation
<-> translational
{adj: one-way} moving or permitting movement in one direction only
"one-way streets"
"a one-way ticket"
{adj: palpitant, palpitating} having a slight and rapid trembling motion
"palpitant movements rather than violent eruptions"
"my palpitating heart"
{adj: pietistic, pietistical} of or relating to Pietism
"the Pietistic movement"
{adj: pyrrhic} of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece
"pyrrhic dance movements"
{adj: random} lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance
"a random choice"
"bombs fell at random"
"random movements"
<-> nonrandom
{adj: rapid, speedy} characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed
"a rapid movement"
"a speedy car"
"a speedy errand boy"
{adj: rearward, reverse} directed or moving toward the rear
"a rearward glance"
"a rearward movement"
{adj: repetitive, repetitious} characterized by repetition
"repetitive movement"
<-> nonrepetitive
{adj: reverse} of the transmission gear causing backward movement in a motor vehicle
"in reverse gear"
<-> forward
{adj: romantic, romanticist, romanticistic} belonging to or characteristic of romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts
"romantic poetry"
{adj: rough, rocky, bumpy, jolty, jolting, jumpy} causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements
"a rough ride"
<-> smooth
{adj: saccadic} of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation
{adj: sluggish, sulky} with little movement; very slow
"a sluggish stream"
{adj: springy} (of movements) light and confidently active
"he walked away with a springy step"
{adj: startled} excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
"students startled by the teacher's quiet return"
"the sudden fluttering of the startled pigeons"
"her startled expression"
{adj: tectonic} pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust
"tectonic plates"
"tectonic valleys"
{adj: thermal, thermic, caloric} relating to or associated with heat
"thermal movements of molecules"
"thermal capacity"
"thermic energy"
"the caloric effect of sunlight"
<-> nonthermal
{adj: tickling, tingling, titillating} exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements
{adj: translational} of or relating to uniform movement without rotation
<-> nontranslational
{adj: uncoordinated} lacking the skillful and effective interaction of muscle movements
"his movements are uncoordinated"
"an uncoordinated toddler"
{adj: unidirectional} operating or moving or allowing movement in one direction only
"a unidirectional flow"
"a unidirectional antenna"
"a unidirectional approach to a problem"
<-> bidirectional
{adj: union} of trade unions
"the union movement"
"union negotiations"
"a union-shop clause in the contract"
<-> nonunion
{adj: unitary} relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity
"the unitary principles of nationalism"
"a unitary movement in politics"
{adj: up, upward} extending or moving toward a higher place
"the up staircase"
"a general upward movement of fish"
{adj: wary} marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
"they were wary in their movements"
"a wary glance at the black clouds"
"taught to be wary of strangers"
<-> unwary
{adj: white, lily-white} restricted to whites only
"under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"
"a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
{adv: particularly, in particular} specifically or especially distinguished from others
"loves Bach, particularly his partitas"
"recommended one book in particular"
"trace major population movements for the Pueblo groups in particular"
{adv: philosophically} with respect to philosophy
"the movement is philosophically indebted to Rousseau"
{adv: quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace} with rapid movements
"he works quickly"
<-> slowly
{adv: tamely} in a tame manner
"the labour movement allowed itself to be run out of power tamely"
{n: Abkhaz, Abkhazia} an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability
{n: Akhbari} a religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli
"Akhbari Shiism has never promoted political control"
{n: Al Nathir} a Palestinian terrorist organization formed in 2002 and linked to Fatah movement of Yasser Arafat
{n: Albigensianism, Catharism} a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition
{n: Black September Movement} a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes
{n: Boy Scouts} an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys
{n: Braque, Georges Braque} French painter who led the cubist movement (1882-1963)
{n: Brown, Robert Brown} Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
{n: Brownian movement, Brownian motion, pedesis} the random motion of small particles suspended in a gas or liquid
{n: Chabad, Chabad Hasidism} a form of Hasidism practiced by Lithuanian and Russian Jews under communist rule; the beliefs and practices of the Lubavitch movement
{n: Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand} French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848)
{n: Civil Rights movement} movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
{n: Communist Manifesto} a socialist manifesto written by Marx and Engels (1842) describing the history of the working-class movement according to their views
{n: Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp} French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968)
{n: East Turkistan Islamic Movement, East Turkestan Islamic Movement} a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang; declared by China in 2001 to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression
{n: Enlightenment, Age of Reason} a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions
{n: European wolf spider, tarantula, Lycosa tarentula} large southern European spider once thought to be the cause of tarantism (uncontrollable bodily movement)
{n: Frederick William IV} king of Prussia who violently suppressed democratic movements (1795-1865)
{n: Free French, Fighting French} a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic
{n: Gallicanism} a religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church
{n: Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement} a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing
{n: Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors} an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan
{n: Hasidim, Hassidim, Hasidism, Chasidim, Chassidim} a sect of Orthodox Jews that arose out of a pietistic movement originating in eastern Europe in the second half of the 18th century; a sect that follows the Mosaic law strictly
{n: Howe, Julia Ward Howe} United States feminist who was active in the women's suffrage movement (1819-1910)
{n: Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-Marie Hugo} French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
{n: Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, I.W.W.} a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States; founded in Chicago in 1905 and dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism; its membership declined after World War I
{n: Islamism} a fundamentalist Islamic revivalist movement generally characterized by moral conservatism and the literal interpretation of the Koran and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all aspects of life
{n: Jacobin} a member of the radical movement that instituted the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution
{n: Keble, John Keble} English clergyman who (with John Henry Newman and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement (1792-1866)
{n: Kinetoscope} a device invented by Edison that gave an impression of movement as an endless loop of film moved continuously over a light source with a rapid shutter; precursor of the modern motion picture
{n: Labanotation} a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics
{n: Lautaro Youth Movement, Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement, Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces} a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths
{n: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, Tigers, World Tamil Association, World Tamil Movement} a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka that began in 1970 as a student protest over the limited university access for Tamil students; currently seeks to establish an independent Tamil state called Eelam; relies on guerilla strategy including terrorist tactics that target key government and military personnel
"the Tamil Tigers perfected suicide bombing as a weapon of war"
{n: Lubavitch, Lubavitch movement, Chabad-Lubavitch, Chabad} a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study
{n: Lubavitcher} a member of the Lubavitch movement; a follower of Chabad Hasidism
{n: Lubavitch} a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century
{n: Mazzini, Giuseppe Mazzini} Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872)
{n: Mennonite Church} formed from the Anabaptist movement in the 16th century; noted for its simplicity of life
{n: Mennonite} a member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life
{n: New Wave, Nouvelle Vague} an art movement in French cinema in the 1960s
{n: Newman, John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman} English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
{n: Oldenberg, Claes Oldenberg} United States sculptor (born in Sweden); a leader of the pop art movement who was noted for giant sculptures of common objects (born in 1929)
{n: Oxford movement} 19th-century movement in the Church of England opposing liberal tendencies
{n: Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO} a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authority
{n: Parks, Rosa Parks} United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913)
{n: Pietism} 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
{n: Pusey, Edward Pusey, Edward Bouverie Pusey} English theologian who (with John Henry Newman and John Keble) founded the Oxford movement (1800-1882)
{n: Rankin, Jeannette Rankin} leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973)
{n: Rastafari, Rastas} a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; Rastafarians regard Ras Tafari as divine; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
{n: Red Brigades, Brigate Rosse, BR} a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989
{n: Red Guard} a radical political movement by Chinese youths who espoused Maoist principles
{n: Reformation, Protestant Reformation} a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
{n: Romanticism, Romantic Movement} a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
"Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"
<-> classicism
{n: Salafism, Salafi movement} a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world
{n: Sinn Fein} an Irish republican political movement founded in 1905 to promote independence from England and unification of Ireland; became the political branch of the Irish Republican Army
{n: Tantrism} movement within Buddhism combining elements of Hinduism and paganism
{n: Tareekh e Kasas, Movement for Revenge} an organization of Muslims in India who killed Hindus in September 2002; believed to have ties with Muslim terrorists in Pakistan
{n: Tourette's syndrome, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome} neurological disorder characterized by facial grimaces and tics and movements of the upper body and grunts and shouts and coprolalia
{n: Tractarianism, Puseyism} principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times'
{n: Tractarian} a follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times')
{n: Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru, MRTA} a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru; was formed in 1983 to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime; has connections with the ELN in Bolivia
{n: Tzara, Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenstock} French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the dada movement (1896-1963)
{n: Usuli} a religious movement by Persian Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iran that is opposed to the Akhbari
"Usuli Shiism produced the politically active caste of priests that is a distinctive feature of Iranian Shiism"
{n: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward} English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)
{n: Warhol, Andy Warhol} United States artist who was a leader of the pop art movement (1930-1987)
{n: Zionism, Zionist movement} a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine
{n: air traffic} traffic created by the movement of aircraft
{n: airiness, delicacy} lightness in movement or manner
{n: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna} a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
{n: anti-war movement} a campaign against entering or continuing a war
{n: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement} an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
"the cinema relies on apparent motion"
"the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
{n: apraxia} inability to make purposeful movements
{n: artistic movement, art movement} a group of artists who agree on general principles
{n: artistic style, idiom} the style of a particular artist or school or movement
"an imaginative orchestral idiom"
{n: ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia} inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
{n: athetosis} a continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts
{n: awkwardness, clumsiness} the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
<-> gracefulness
{n: balance wheel, balance} a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat
{n: barrier} a structure or object that impedes free movement
{n: basal ganglion} any of several masses of subcortical grey matter at the base of each cerebral hemisphere that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement
{n: behavior, behaviour} (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
{n: bellwether} someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity
{n: belly dance, belly dancing, danse du ventre} a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
{n: belly dancer, exotic belly dancer, exotic dancer} a woman who performs a solo Oriental dance using exaggerated abdominal movements
{n: bending, bend} movement that causes the formation of a curve
{n: blocking, block} the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
{n: body language} communication via the movements or attitudes of the body
{n: bowel movement, movement, bm} a euphemism for defecation
"he had a bowel movement"
{n: bracket creep} a movement into a higher tax bracket as taxable income increases
{n: breathing room, breathing space} sufficient room for easy breathing or movement
"moved to the country to find breathing room"
{n: breath} a slight movement of the air
"there wasn't a breath of air in the room"
{n: brother, comrade} used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
"Greetings, comrade!"
{n: cage} something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
{n: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort} a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
"he supported populist campaigns"
"they worked in the cause of world peace"
"the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"
"the movement to end slavery"
"contributed to the war effort"
{n: cartoon, animated cartoon, toon} a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
{n: cell, cadre} a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
{n: cha-cha, cha-cha-cha} a modern ballroom dance from Latin America; small steps and swaying movements of the hips
{n: change of location, travel} a movement through space that changes the location of something
{n: chatter mark} marks on a glaciated rock caused by the movement of a glacier
{n: chemotaxis} movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus
{n: chorea} any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs
{n: choreic abasia} abasia related to abnormal movements of the legs
{n: circulation} free movement or passage through a series of vessels (as of water through pipes or sap through a plant)
{n: circulation} movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
{n: circumduction} a circular movement of a limb or eye
{n: civil rights leader, civil rights worker, civil rights activist} a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
{n: classical ballet} a style of ballet based on precise conventional steps performed with graceful and flowing movements
{n: classicism, classicalism} a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms
"classicism often derived its models from the ancient Greeks and Romans"
<-> Romanticism
{n: clatter} a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement)
"the shutters clattered against the house"
"the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones"
{n: common front} a movement in which several individuals or groups with different interests join together
"the unions presented a common front at the bargaining table"
{n: constructivism} an abstractionist artistic movement in Russia after World War I; industrial materials were used to construct nonrepresentational objects
{n: consumerism} a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers
{n: continental drift} the gradual movement and formation of continents (as described by plate tectonics)
{n: control} (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
"the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired"
"he had lost control of his sphincters"
{n: convection} (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
{n: coordination} the skillful and effective interaction of movements
<-> incoordination
{n: crawl} a very slow movement
"the traffic advanced at a crawl"
{n: creep} a slow longitudinal movement or deformation
{n: crustal movement, tectonic movement} movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust
{n: cubism} an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
{n: cultural movement} a group of people working together to advance certain cultural goals
{n: dada, dadaism} a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
{n: dance step, step} a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance
"he taught them the waltz step"
{n: dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation} taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music
{n: deflection, deflexion} the movement of the pointer or pen of a measuring instrument from its zero position
{n: dervish} an ascetic Muslim monk; a member of an order noted for devotional exercises involving bodily movements
{n: descent} a movement downward
{n: determination, purpose} the quality of being determined to do or achieve something
"his determination showed in his every movement"
"he is a man of purpose"
{n: development} (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
{n: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness} frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor
{n: divertimento, serenade} a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form
{n: dodge} a quick evasive movement
{n: drift, trend, movement} a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
"not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"
"a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
{n: driving} the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
{n: dyskinesia} abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements
{n: earthquake, quake, temblor, seism} shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity
{n: ecumenical movement} a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches; aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity
{n: ecumenism, ecumenicism, ecumenicalism} (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity
{n: ecumenism, oecumenism} a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches)
{n: entrance, entering} a movement into or inward
{n: escapement} mechanical device that regulates movement
{n: eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics} the interpretation in harmonious bodily movements of the rhythm of musical compositions; used to teach musical understanding
{n: existentialism, existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy} (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
{n: exposition} (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur
{n: expressionism} an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality
{n: eye movement} the movement of the eyes
{n: fairway} a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement
{n: fall} a movement downward
"the rise and fall of the tides"
<-> rise
{n: falun gong} a spiritual movement that began in China in the latter half of the 20th century and is based on Buddhist and Taoist teachings and practices
{n: fan} a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
{n: fauvism} an art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and nonnatural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists
{n: feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib} the movement aimed at equal rights for women
{n: fetal movement, foetal movement} motion of a fetus within the uterus (usually detected by the 16th week of pregnancy)
{n: figure} a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
"she made the best score on compulsory figures"
{n: fleetness} rapidity of movement
"fleetness of foot"
{n: flit, dart} a sudden quick movement
{n: freeze, halt} an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
"a halt in the arms race"
"a nuclear freeze"
{n: futurism} an artistic movement in Italy around 1910 that tried to express the energy and values of the machine age
{n: gawkiness, ungainliness} the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant
{n: gay liberation movement, gay lib} the movement aimed at liberating homosexuals from legal or social or economic oppression
{n: genus Mimosa} genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement
{n: gesture, motion} the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals
{n: grace, gracility} elegance and beauty of movement or expression
{n: gracelessness, ungracefulness} an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
{n: gravitation} a figurative movement toward some attraction
"the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs"
{n: gravitation} movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction
"irrigation by gravitation rather than by pumps"
<-> levitation
{n: gridlock} a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
{n: guide rope} a rope used to guide the movement of the load of a crane
{n: guru} a recognized leader in some field or of some movement
"a guru of genomics"
{n: hairspring} a fine spiral spring that regulates the movement of the balance wheel in a timepiece
{n: harassing fire} fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale
{n: hard core} the most dedicated and intensely loyal nucleus of a group or movement
{n: headway, head} forward movement
"the ship made little headway against the gale"
{n: heave, heaving} an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
"the heaving of waves on a rough sea"
{n: high priest} a preeminent authority or major proponent of a movement or doctrine
"he's the high priest of contemporary jazz"
{n: hinge joint, ginglymus, ginglymoid joint} a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane
{n: humanism} the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies
{n: hyperactivity} a condition characterized by excessive restlessness and movement
{n: hypermotility} excessive movement; especially excessive motility of the gastrointestinal tract
{n: imagism} a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery
{n: immobilization, immobilisation, immobilizing} the act of limiting movement or making incapable of movement
"the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team"
{n: incoordination} a lack of coordination of movements
<-> coordination
{n: individuality, individualism, individuation} the quality of being individual
"so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality"
<-> commonality
{n: intermezzo} a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony
{n: interpretive dance, interpretive dancing, interpretative dance, interpretative dancing} a form of modern dance in which the dancer's movements depict an emotion or tell a story
{n: isometrics, isometric exercise} muscle-building exercises (or a system of musclebuilding exercises) involving muscular contractions against resistance without movement (the muscles contracts but the length of the muscle does not change)
{n: isotonic exercise} exercise in which opposing muscles contract and there is controlled movement (tension is constant while the lengths of the muscles change)
"the classic isotonic exercise is lifting free weights"
{n: jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade} an abrupt spasmodic movement
{n: jitter} a small irregular movement
{n: jumping bean, jumping seed, Mexican jumping bean} seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble
{n: kick up} raising the feet backward with the hands on the ground; a first movement in doing a handstand
{n: kick, kicking} a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics
"the kick must be synchronized with the arm movements"
"the swimmer's kicking left a wake behind him"
{n: kinanesthesia} inability to sense movement
<-> kinesthesia
{n: kinesiology} the branch of physiology that studies the mechanics and anatomy in relation to human movement
{n: kinesis} a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation
{n: kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement} the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc
{n: kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement} the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body
<-> kinanesthesia
{n: knuckle joint, hinge joint} a joint allowing movement in one plane only
{n: labial consonant, labial} a consonant whose articulation involves movement of the lips
{n: labor leader} a leader of a labor movement
{n: labor movement, trade union movement, labor} an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
{n: lap, circle, circuit} movement once around a course
"he drove an extra lap just for insurance"
{n: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce} a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
{n: levitation} movement upward in virtue of lightness
<-> gravitation
{n: lip reader} someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips
{n: lip synchronization, lip synchronisation, lip synch, lip sync} combining audio and video recording in such a way that the sound is perfectly synchronized with the action that produced it; especially synchronizing the movements of a speaker's lips with the sound of his speech
{n: lipreading} perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips
{n: locomotion, travel} self-propelled movement
{n: looseness, play} movement or space for movement
"there was too much play in the steering wheel"
<-> tightness
{n: luminism} an artistic movement in the United States that was derived from the Hudson River school; active from 1850 to 1870; painted realistic landscapes in a style that pictured atmospheric light and the use of aerial perspective
{n: maneuver, manoeuvre, play} a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
"he made a great maneuver"
"the runner was out on a play by the shortstop"
{n: manipulability} the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands
{n: migration} (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule
{n: migration} the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
{n: mime, pantomime, dumb show} a performance using gestures and body movements without words
{n: minimalism, minimal art, reductivism} an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color
{n: modern ballet} a style of ballet that admits a wider variety of movements
{n: modern dance} a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings
{n: mods} a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters
{n: motion, movement, move, motility} a change of position that does not entail a change of location
"the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"
"movement is a sign of life"
"an impatient move of his hand"
"gastrointestinal motility"
{n: motion, movement, move} the act of changing location from one place to another
"police controlled the motion of the crowd"
"the movement of people from the farms to the cities"
"his move put him directly in my path"
{n: motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness} a state of no motion or movement
"the utter motionlessness of a marble statue"
<-> motion
{n: motor area, motor region, motor cortex, Rolando's area, excitable area} the cortical area that influences motor movements
{n: movement, motion} a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
{n: movement, social movement, front} a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
"he was a charter member of the movement"
"politicians have to respect a mass movement"
"he led the national liberation front"
{n: movement} a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
"the second movement is slow and melodic"
{n: movement} the act of changing the location of something
"the movement of cargo onto the vessel"
{n: movement} the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
"it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
{n: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick} a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
"they went to a movie every Saturday night"
"the film was shot on location"
{n: mudra} ritual hand movement in Hindu religious dancing
{n: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music} a musical work that has been created
"the composition is written in four movements"
{n: mutter, muttering, murmur, murmuring, murmuration, mussitation} a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
{n: n-type semiconductor} a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons
{n: nationalist leader} the leader of a nationalist movement
{n: naturalism, realism} an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description
{n: negative chemotaxis} movement away from a chemical stimulus
{n: neoexpressionism} an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings
{n: neoromanticism} an art movement based on a revival of romanticism in art and literature
{n: nephoscope} a measuring instrument that uses a grid for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of movement of clouds
{n: ninjutsu, ninjitsu} the traditional Japanese method of espionage; involves stealthy movements and the use of camouflage
{n: nystagmus} involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders
{n: orthodox sleep, nonrapid eye movement sleep, NREM sleep, nonrapid eye movement, NREM} a recurring sleep state during which rapid eye movements do not occur and dreaming does not occur; accounts for about 75% of normal sleep time
{n: p-type semiconductor} a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes
{n: paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM} a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
{n: pectoral fin} either of a pair of fins situated just behind the head in fishes that help control the direction of movement
{n: pelvic fin, ventral fin} either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
{n: peneplain, peneplane} a more or less level land surface representing and advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements
{n: pericardial cavity, pericardial space} the space between the layers of the pericardium that contains fluid that lubricates the membrane surfaces and allows easy heart movement
{n: periodic motion, periodic movement} motion that recurs over and over and the period of time required for each recurrence remains the same
{n: phrase} dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
{n: pivot joint, rotary joint, rotatory joint, articulatio trochoidea} a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation
"the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint"
{n: plot} a chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
{n: political movement} a group of people working together to achieve a political goal
{n: positive chemotaxis} movement toward a chemical stimulus
{n: post-rotational nystagmus} nystagmus caused by suddenly stopping the rapid rotation of the body; large slow movements of the eyeballs are in the direction opposite to the direction of rotation
{n: progress, progression, advance} a movement forward
"he listened for the progress of the troops"
{n: propagation} the movement of a wave through a medium
{n: proprioception} the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts
{n: proprioceptor} special nerve endings in the muscles and tendons and other organs that respond to stimuli regarding the position and movement of the body
{n: psychomotor epilepsy, temporal lobe epilepsy} epilepsy characterized clinically by impairment of consciousness and amnesia for the episode; often involves purposeful movements of the arms and legs and sometimes hallucinations
{n: quickening} the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus
{n: recapitualtion} (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when you are composing the final part of a movement)
{n: recapitulation} (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated
{n: reciprocation} alternating back-and-forth movement
{n: recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash} a movement back from an impact
{n: reform movement} a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms
{n: religious movement} a movement intended to bring about religious reforms
{n: restriction, limitation} a principle that limits the extent of something
"I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements"
{n: retinal scanning} biometric identification by scanning the retina of the eye
"identification by retinal scanning is complicated by eye movements"
{n: riding, horseback riding, equitation} the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
{n: rise, rising, ascent, ascension} a movement upward
"they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
<-> fall
{n: romanticist, romantic} an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
<-> classicist
{n: rondo, rondeau} a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
{n: room, way, elbow room} space for movement
"room to pass"
"make way for"
"hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
{n: rooting reflex} reflex consisting of head-turning and sucking movements elicited in a normal infant by gently stroking the side of the mouth or cheek
{n: rotational nystagmus} nystagmus caused by the body rotating rapidly; large slow movements of the eyeballs are in the direction of rotation
{n: round dance, round dancing} a ballroom dance characterized by revolving movement
{n: rover, scouter} an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
{n: rumba, rhumba} a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement
{n: saccade} a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest
{n: saltation} (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface
{n: scherzo} a fast movement (usually in triple time)
{n: seek} the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
{n: seismography} the measurement of tremors and shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes
{n: seismograph} a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake)
{n: shaking} the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements
{n: signal box} a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains
{n: slack, slack water} a stretch of water without current or movement
"suddenly they were in a slack and the water was motionless"
{n: smoke screen, smokescreen} (military) screen consisting of a cloud of smoke that obscures movements
{n: snake charmer} a performer who uses movements and music to control snakes
{n: snap} the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
"he gave his fingers a snap"
{n: snap} the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
"servants appeared at the snap of his fingers"
{n: somatosense} any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain
{n: sonata form} a musical form having 3 sections -- exposition and development and recapitulation; characteristic of 1st movement of a sonata or symphony
{n: sonata} a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
{n: soul} a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s
"soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement"
{n: spirograph} a measuring instrument for recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements
{n: standard-bearer} an outstanding leader of a political movement
{n: startle, jump, start} a sudden involuntary movement
"he awoke with a start"
{n: stone} a lack of feeling or expression or movement
"he must have a heart of stone"
"her face was as hard as stone"
{n: stroboscope, strobe, strobe light} scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary
{n: stroke} a single complete movement
{n: stroke} any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
{n: suite} a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
{n: supra expressionism} a movement that tried to go beyond expressionism
{n: suprematism} a geometric abstractionist movement originated by Kazimir Malevich in Russia that influenced constructivism
{n: surrealism} a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
{n: surrealist} an artist who is a member of the movement called surrealism
{n: swash} the movement or sound of water
"the swash of waves on the beach"
{n: sweep} a movement in an arc
"a sweep of his arm"
{n: swell, crestless wave} the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
{n: swimming kick} a movement of the legs in swimming
{n: symbolism} an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images
{n: symbolist} a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols
{n: syndicalism} a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions
{n: tail, shadow, shadower} a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
{n: tapotement} massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis
{n: terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO} a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
{n: throw, stroke, cam stroke} the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
{n: throw} the act of throwing (propelling something through the air with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
"the catcher made a good throw to second base"
{n: tibialis, tibialis muscle, musculus tibialis} either of two skeletal muscle in each leg arising from the tibia; provides for movement of the foot
{n: tightness, tautness} lack of movement or room for movement
<-> looseness
{n: torchbearer} a leader in a campaign or movement
{n: toss} an abrupt movement
"a toss of his head"
{n: translation, displacement} the act of uniform movement
{n: translation} a uniform movement without rotation
{n: transportation system, transportation, transit} a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
{n: triple jump, hop-step-and-jump} an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement
{n: troop movement} movement of military units to a new location
{n: turning, turn} a movement in a new direction
"the turning of the wind"
{n: twist, wrench} a jerky pulling movement
{n: universal joint, universal} coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions
"in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps"
{n: upturn} an upward movement or trend as in business activity
{n: vanguard, forefront, cutting edge} the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
"the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England"
"the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy"
{n: wave, undulation} (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
{n: wave, waving, wafture} the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
{n: wave} a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon
"a wave of settlers"
"troops advancing in waves"
{n: whirl, commotion} confused movement
"he was caught up in a whirl of work"
"a commotion of people fought for the exits"
{n: wrester} someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements
{n: youth movement, youth crusade} political or religious or social reform movement or agitation consisting chiefly of young people
{v: abound, burst, bristle} be in a state of movement or action
"The room abounded with screaming children"
"The garden bristled with toddlers"
{v: adopt, follow, espouse} choose and follow ; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
"She followed the feminist movement"
"The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
{v: advect} convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid
"energy advected from the environment"
{v: arrive, get, come} reach a destination ; arrive by movement or progress
"She arrived home at 7 o'clock"
"She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"
<-> leave
{v: automatize, automatise, automate} make automatic or control or operate automatically
"automatize the production"
"automate the movement of the robot"
{v: begin, start} have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
"The DMZ begins right over the hill"
"The second movement begins after the Allegro"
"Prices for these homes start at $250,000"
<-> end
{v: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up} make a mess of, destroy or ruin
"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"
"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
{v: break, recrudesce, develop} happen
"Report the news as it develops"
"These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
{v: cartwheel} do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet
{v: check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back} hold back, as of a danger or an enemy ; check the expansion or influence of
"Arrest the downward trend"
"Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"
"Contain the rebel movement"
"Turn back the tide of communism"
{v: coordinate} bring into common action, movement, or condition
"coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"
"coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues"
"coordinate our efforts"
{v: create} bring into existence
"The company was created 25 years ago"
"He created a new movement in painting"
{v: dodge} make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid
"The child dodged the teacher's blow"
{v: fibrillate} make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements
"His heart fibrillated and he died"
{v: flip, twitch} toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
{v: gate} restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
{v: gesticulate, gesture, motion} show, express or direct through movement
"He gestured his desire to leave"
{v: hamper, halter, cramp, strangle} prevent the progress or free movement of
"He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"
"the imperilist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
{v: handicap, hinder, hamper} put at a disadvantage
"The brace I have to wear is hindering my movements"
{v: hang} place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
"hang a door"
{v: intervene} be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events
"This interludes intervenes between the two movements"
"Eight days intervened"
{v: lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind} hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
{v: lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust} make a thrusting forward movement
{v: manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate} perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
{v: mime, pantomime} act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only
"The acting students mimed eating an apple"
{v: originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow} come into existence ; take on form or shape
"A new religious movement originated in that country"
"a love that sprang up from friendship"
"the idea for the book grew out of a short story"
"An interesting phenomenon uprose"
{v: pan} make a sweeping movement
"The camera panned across the room"
{v: parry, block, deflect} impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
"block an attack"
{v: play, spiel} replay (as a melody)
"Play it again, Sam"
"She played the third movement very beautifully"
{v: press, push} make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
"`Now push hard,' said the doctor to the woman"
{v: quiver, quake, palpitate} shake with fast, tremulous movements
"His nostrils palpitated"
{v: restrain, confine, hold} to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
"This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"
"About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"
"The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"
"The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
{v: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen} walk as if unable to control one's movements
"The drunken man staggered into the room"
{v: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make} have a bowel movement
"The dog had made in the flower beds"
{v: swash} make violent, noisy movements
{v: swing, sweep, swing out} make a big sweeping gesture or movement
{v: swing} hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
"The soccer player began to swing at the referee"
{v: tickle, titillate, vellicate} touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
{v: topicalize} emphasize by putting have stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
"Speakers topicalize more often than they realize"
"The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'"
{v: translate} physics: subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
{v: uplift} lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
"the earth's movement uplifted this part of town"
{v: wreathe} move with slow, sinuous movements
{v: yank, jerk} pull, or move with a sudden movement
"He turned the handle and jerked the door open"
And the conditions for the regeneration of Africa include the growing mass movement of Africans during the past two decades, manifested in struggles against dictatorships and undemocratic rule.
有利于非洲复兴的条件还包括过去 20年来日益增长的反对独裁统治和不民主统治的群众运动。
Jordan sends Anselmo to watch for unusual troop movements on the nearby road.
乔丹派安塞尔莫去察看附近公路上是否有异常的军事行动。
Price says the disease afflicts roughly one in a million people and occurs when certain brain cells that regulate muscle tone and coordinate movement die.
普赖斯说，大约每 100万人里有一人患有此症，而且这种疾病在某些调节肌肉紧张程度和协调运动的脑细胞死亡时发生。
All the cats have radio collars, and biologists hope to track their movements from the ground and small airplanes.
所有的山猫都装有无线电项圈，以便生物学家们从地面和小型飞机上进行跟踪观察。
The beginning of the IQ-testing movement overlapped with the eugenics movement--hugely popular in America and Europe among the " better sort " before Hitler gave it a had name--which held that intelligence was mostly inherited and that people deficient in it should be discouraged from reproducing.
智商测试运动的发起与优生运动－在美国和欧洲的 "优良人种 "中尤为风靡，后来希特勒给它强加了一种恶名－重叠在了一起，这一重叠使人们认为智商主要是遗传的，应阻止智力有缺陷的人生育。
Critics and performers alike enthused about the innovations--more symbolic, animated movement; bright and elaborate costumes; Chinese ballet dancers. "无论是评论家还是演员均对这一创举反应热烈－动作更象征、更生动；服装鲜艳、精致；中国芭蕾舞演员也介入其中。
As he tells the story, it was about the same time as urbanisation was taking place in a big way--the movement of people from the countryside to the cities.
如他所述，那时大约正发生大规模城市化运动－人们从乡间向城市迁移。
Although not an educational reformer, he championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation of today's education-reform movements.
尽管不是教育改革者，他却首创了如何看待儿童思考的一种方式，为今天的教改运动奠定了基矗
Although he'd been schooled in the Nazi youth movement, he didn't believe in the Aryan-supremacy business any more than I did.
他尽管接受了纳粹青年运动的教育，却一点也不比我更相信雅利安人优异那一套。
Real E-Motion U.S. firm MotionWare has developed a virtual reality device that creates the actual sensation of movement.
真实的电子动感一家名为 MotionWare 的美国公司开发了一能够创造出真实动感的虚拟现实装置。
On the court at Crunch, Edwards exhibits quick hands and a fluid court movement.
在 Crunch 健身中心，爱德华斯显示了高超的控球能力和快速流畅的移动能力。
In America, the " fat acceptance " movement is, well-advanced, with anti-discrimination law firms catering to an overweight clientele and movements to enlarge movie theater seats.
在美国，接受肥胖者运动取得了很大的进展，他们有专门的反歧视法律机构为超重的客户服务，还举行活动要求加大电影院的座椅。
TV cameras rerun shots from either player's viewpoint, while computerized maps of the players ' movements on the court reveal strategy.
电视摄像机重播从双方运动员角度拍摄的图片，与此同时，电脑制作的双方运动员在场上的跑动路线图揭示出各自的策略。
Using past events as a framework, the large mammal predator is working out a relationship between movement and food, sensitive to possibilities in cold trails and distant sounds-and yesterday's unforgotten lessons.
庞大的哺乳食肉动物将昔日的事件用作一参照框架，在动（movement）与食物之间建立起联系，敏感注意着寒冷小径上的种种可能性，以及远处传来的声音--还有昨日那不曾遗忘的教训。
Studies showed that sensations as diverse as those of red, black, green, and white, or touch, cold, warmth, movement, pain, posture, and pressure apparently may arise through activation of the same cortical areas.
研究表明，像红色、黑色、绿色和白色，或者触觉、寒冷、温暖、运动、痛苦、姿势以及压力等如此大相径庭的感觉，显然有可能来自对相同脑皮层区域的刺激。
In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on determining more accurately the status of women in various periods.
在很大程度上，由于女权主义运动（feminist movement）的缘故，史学家近年来汇聚了大量的注意力，来更为准确地确定妇女在各个历史时期的地位。
Increasingly, as in the individual studies of Lund, Round, and Reynolds, researchers began to stress the importance of environmental factors such as temperature, light, and water movements in controlling algal numbers.
正如在伦德、朗德、和雷诺兹（Lund，Round，and Reynolds）的单独研究中那样，科研人员开始越来越强调诸如温度光照、以及水的运动这类环境因素在控制水藻数量方面的重要性。
Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the emergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth-century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women.
研究美国历史的学者，在致力于辨别那些促成了女权主义运动崛起的状况时，早已充分地调查了美国十九世纪中叶影响着妇女的那些经济与社会条件。
Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured because, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe.
此外，美国女权主义运动的意识形态渊源一直被掩盖着，这是因为，即使当史学家们真的考虑到了在美国国内发生的那些女权主义思想和活动时，他们也未能认识到，女权主义在当时实乃一场真正的国际运动，以欧洲为其中心。
American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement—utopian socialism—which was already popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades that culminated in the first women's rights conference held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848.
有些美国女权主义活动家被描述成“离群索居的”和“单枪匹马的理论家”，她们实际上与某项运动——即乌托邦社会主义（utopian socialism）密切相联，而该项运动早就在此际的二十年当中在欧洲普及女权主义思想，并以于1848年在纽约Seneca Falls召开的第一届女权大会而臻顶点。
Mr. Karzai said terrorism, like the Taleban movement in his country, is a product of negligence. He said Afghanistan was abandoned to its fate after the Soviet army withdrew and extremism flourished.
卡尔扎伊说，恐怖主义和阿富汗的塔利班一样，是疏忽大意的产物。他说在苏联军队撤出后，阿富汗无所约束，任意发展，极端主义因而盛行。
The Palestinian leader said the Israeli withdrawal had brought what he termed "historic days of joy" and he promised there would be new jobs, freedom of movement and new housing. He said the withdrawal was the result of patience and sacrifice of the Palestinian people.
巴勒斯坦领导人阿巴斯说，以色列的撤离行动带来了具有“历史意义的欢乐”，他保证加沙地带将会有新的就业机会、行动自由和新的住房。他说，以色列的撤离是巴勒斯坦人民耐心和牺牲的结果。
Mr. Morris, talking to reporters in Bangkok after a trip through Burma, said Burmese government policies on agriculture, marketing and the movement of people make it difficult for many Burmese to subsist.
莫里斯此前走访了缅甸各地，他对记者说，缅甸政府在农业、市场以及人民迁徙方面的政策给很多缅甸人造成困难，让他们难以维持生计。
In 1986, Mrs. Aquino was the grieving widow of Benigno Aquino, Ferdinand Marcos's leading rival, who was gunned down as he returned to Manila from exile. Along with the late Cardinal Jaime Sin, Mr. Aquino called on the people to take to the streets, and they forced Mr. Marcos to flee the country in a movement that would come to be known as "People Power."
1986年，阿基诺夫人的丈夫，反对党领导人费迪南德.阿基诺结束流亡生涯，返回马尼拉时遭到枪杀。阿基诺夫人和现已去世的红衣主教詹姆信一起，呼吁人们上街游行，迫使马科斯出逃国外。这就是菲律宾著名的“人民力量”运动。
Kurmanbek Bakiyev, a former Kyrgyz prime minister, has taken over as the acting leader of the Central Asian republic. On Friday he named an acting cabinet made up of key figures within the opposition movement and said presidential elections would be held in June.
吉尔吉斯斯坦前总理巴基耶夫目前担任这个中亚共和国的代总统。星期五，巴基耶夫指定了由反对派组织的主要人士组成的代理内阁。 他说，总统选举将在六月举行。
He says obtaining an international water treaty will take the same kind of mobilization by civil society which achieved the Ottawa Convention, banning the production and use of landmines. He says so far, Morocco, Tajikistan and Uganda support the movement and South Africa and Brazil are showing great interest.
他说，需要象禁止生产和使用地雷的渥太华公约那样将公民社会动员起来，才能达成一部国际性的用水公约。他说，目前已经有摩洛哥、塔吉克斯坦和乌干达对这个运动表示支持，南非和巴西也表示有很大兴趣。
Among the dignitaries attending was Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a Democrat and a veteran of the civil rights movement. Congressman Lewis said Reverend King believed in taking action to build a world community at peace with itself.
参加纪念活动的著名人士包括乔治亚州民主党国会议员刘易斯。他是一位资深的民权活动人士。国会议员刘易斯说，马丁·路德·金相信，要采取行动，建立一个内在和谐的世界。
Ms. Maathai says the Nobel Peace Prize will give greater legitimacy to environmentalists across the globe and help her Green Belt movement overcome obstacles.
马塔伊指出，诺贝尔和平奖有助于全球的环保人士得到更多应有的地位，有助于为她的“绿色地带运动”排除障碍。
Ms. Maathai was educated in the United States in the 1960s, during the era of the civil rights movement. The experience, she says, encouraged her to go home and do something positive for the people of Kenya. In the late 1970s, Ms. Maathai began the Green Belt movement to help poor women in rural communities meet their most basic needs.
马塔伊是在60年代美国民权运动期间在美国接受教育的。她说，这段经历激励她回到肯尼亚，为肯尼亚人民做一些积极的事情。70年代后期，马塔伊开始了“绿色地带运动”，帮助农村地区的贫困妇女满足最基本的需求。
The Green Belt movement has planted millions trees in Kenya and across Africa. Along the way, the movement's mission expanded as Ms. Maathai concluded that environmental protection is inextricably linked to good governance.
“绿色地带运动”在肯尼亚和整个非洲种植了数千万棵树木。正象马塔伊所说的，在这个过程中，“绿色地带运动”的范围扩大了，环境保护和良好的政府管理问题紧密地联系在了一起。
"It became obvious to me in the course of our work that it is important to have good governance," she added. "Otherwise, you will be reconstructing and the people who are managing the state will be destroying. That is the way eventually the movement became part of the pro-democracy movement in Kenya."
她说：“在工作过程中，我越来越清楚地意识到良好的政府管理的重要性。否则，你在重建，政府却在毁坏。这就是‘绿色地带运动’最终成为肯尼亚民主运动一部份的原因。”
Yasser Arafat made his first public demand for a Palestinian liberation movement when he was still a student in Cairo in the 1950s. Later, while living in Kuwait, he created the 'Fatah' movement, which became the core of the Palestine Liberation Organization the PLO. He was named PLO leader in 1968 and remained so until his death.
二十世纪五十年代，当阿拉法特还是开罗一名学生的时候，他第一次公开提出要发起巴勒斯坦解放运动。后来，在侨居科威特期间，阿拉法特成立了“法塔赫”运动，成为巴勒斯坦解放组织的中坚力量。1968年，他被任命为巴解组织领导人，一直担任这个职务，直到去世。
The Sudanese government has charged that the 16-month-old rebellion in Darfur is aimed at toppling the government. The rebel Justice and Equality Movement has implied as much, telling VOA that a regime change in Khartoum would be the best and the quickest way to end conflicts in war-torn Sudan.
苏丹政府说，十六个月前在达尔富尔地区开始的反叛活动，目的是要推翻政府。反政府武装正义平等运动并不隐瞒自己的目的，这个组织对本台说，喀土穆政权的变更是在饱经战乱的苏丹结束冲突的最好也是最快的方式。
On Tuesday, the Sudanese Embassy in Washington issued an angry statement accusing the Justice and Equality Movement of plotting with another eastern-based rebel group called Beja Congress to bring down the government in Khartoum.
星期二，苏丹驻华盛顿大使馆发布了一份愤怒的声明，指责正义与平等运动伙同另一个以苏丹东部为基地的名为贝贾大会的反政府武装，阴谋推翻喀土穆政府。
Speaking to VOA by satellite telephone from Darfur, one of the top military spokesman for the Justice and Equality Movement, Colonel Omar Adam, says the Darfur rebel group met recently with Beja Congress members in neighboring Eritrea.
正义与平等运动高层军事发言人奥马尔·亚当上校通过卫星传送电话接受了本台采访。他说，达尔富尔反政府武装组织最近在邻国厄立特里亚会见了贝贾大会的成员。
Since the rebel Justice and Equality Movement and Sudan Liberation Army took up arms against the government nearly 16 months ago, as many as 50,000 people are believed to have been killed in Darfur and more than a million made homeless.
自一年零四个月前，正义与平等运动和苏丹解放军拿起武器抵抗政府以来，据信有五万多人在达尔富尔地区被杀死，一百多万人无家可归。
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Movements for laser video compact disk player
激光视盘机的机芯
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Clocks with watch movements, excluding clocks of heading No. 91.04
以表芯装成的钟，但不包括9104的钟
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Electric clocks with watch movements
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Clocks with watch movements, nes excl clock of 91.04
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Time switches with clock or watch movement or with synchronous motor
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Time switches with clock or watch movement/synchronous motor
装有钟、表机芯或同步电动机的定时开关
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Watch movements, complete and assembled
已组装的完整表芯
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Electric atch movements, assembled, with mechnical display
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Electric watch movements, assembled, with opto-electronic display
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Electric watch movements, assembled, nes
其他已组装电动的完整表芯
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Watch movements, complete & assembled, with automatic winding, nes
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Watch movements, complete & assembled, nes
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Clock movements, complete and assembled
已组装的完整钟芯
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Electric clock movements,complete & assembled, for alarm clocks
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Electric clock movements, complete & assembled,nes
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Clock movements, complete & assembled, nes
其他已组装的完整钟芯
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未组装或部分组装完整钟表芯；不完整钟表芯
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Complete movements of watches, unassembled or partly assembled
未组装或部分组装的完整表芯
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Incomplete movements of watches, assembled
已组装的不完整表芯
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Rough movements of watches
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Complete movements of clocks, unassembled or partly assembled
未组装或部分组装的完整钟芯
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政治运动
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Extremist movements
极端分子运动
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Peace movements
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地下运动
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Opposition movements
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