英语释义

1. of or relating to a policy designed to recover lost territory or status of or relating to a revanche
Each of Hitler's allies had their own, partially interrelated, expansionary or revanchist motives for attacking the Soviet Union.
— Michael Burleigh Wilson brought with him a sheaf of high principles—democracy, self-determination, world government—that bore little relevance to the tangled politics and even more tangled geography of postwar Europe. His idealism was soon drowned out by the revanchist passions of his allies.
— Kenneth Auchincloss also advocating or fighting for the recovery of lost territory or status
While revanchist emperors, such as Julian, were still mouthing the aristocratic ideology of imperialist aggression, more realistic rulers, like Constantius II, recognized that the future lay in accommodation with the so-called barbarians who had already infiltrated the heights of army and administration.
— C. R. Whittaker

2. one who advocates or fights for the recovery of lost territory or status one who advocates a policy of revanche
In eastern and South-Eastern Europe today, one man's courageous defender of national self-determination is another's nostalgic revanchist.
— Tony Judt Later in 2007, Pelosi plans to rewrite the laws on pork-barrel spending. She promises that the overall effect of her reforms will be "to break the link between lobbyists and legislation" in Washington. Who will win the coming battle between reformers and revanchists?
— Massimo Calabresi

片语

vengeful复仇的，报复的；复仇心重的

avenging报……之仇，为……报复（avenge 的现在分词）

英汉例句

• the russianpresident's revanchist aggression in ukraine has left his regime more vulnerable than anyone in the kremlin would dare admit.

  这位俄罗斯总统对乌克兰展开的报复性攻击，致使其政权脆弱到了克里姆林宫所有人都不敢承认的地步。