winds of change

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释义与例句

n.
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    The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.

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词源

Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.

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