英语词汇fabian tactics的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Fabian tactics. Such delaying tactics are named after Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman dictator who over a 10-year peri- od defeated Hannibal’s superior Carthaginian army. His strate- gy was to avoid open engagements and employ his troops only in harassing raids and skirmishes in the hills, where Hannibal’s cavalry was ineffective. Marches, countermarches, and other hit-and-run tactics were among the “masterly inactivities” de- vised by this cool, unemotional man to gradually erode Hanni- bal’s forces, despite the objections of the subjects who had elected him dictator. After his victory in the Second Punic War, in 209 b.c., he earned the agnomen, or official nickname, of “Cunctator,” the “slow-goer” or “delayer,” for his wariness. En- gland’s socialist Fabian Society, founded in 1884, adopted Fa- bius Cunctator’s name upon rejecting Marxist revolutionary theory and decided to accomplish “the reorganization of socie- ty” without violence, “by stealing inches, not by grasping leagues,” this giving the word a new, political significance. Fabi- an policy is thus patient, long-range planning.

词汇	fabian tactics
词源	Fabian tactics. Such delaying tactics are named after Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman dictator who over a 10-year peri- od defeated Hannibal’s superior Carthaginian army. His strate- gy was to avoid open engagements and employ his troops only in harassing raids and skirmishes in the hills, where Hannibal’s cavalry was ineffective. Marches, countermarches, and other hit-and-run tactics were among the “masterly inactivities” de- vised by this cool, unemotional man to gradually erode Hanni- bal’s forces, despite the objections of the subjects who had elected him dictator. After his victory in the Second Punic War, in 209 b.c., he earned the agnomen, or official nickname, of “Cunctator,” the “slow-goer” or “delayer,” for his wariness. En- gland’s socialist Fabian Society, founded in 1884, adopted Fa- bius Cunctator’s name upon rejecting Marxist revolutionary theory and decided to accomplish “the reorganization of socie- ty” without violence, “by stealing inches, not by grasping leagues,” this giving the word a new, political significance. Fabi- an policy is thus patient, long-range planning.
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