反动原指物理学上的反向运动,用于历史学上意指与历史发展方向相悖的行为与言论。在中国旧的意识形态话语中,反动派是指反对进步、反对社会变革的集团或个人。
反动派警察破门而入,逮捕了许多激进学生。
The reactionary policemen broke in and arrested many progressive students.
后来,反动派作家认为,在敌对的环境中,边境妇女是孤独的、流离失所的人,这加剧了两性关系中最恶劣的方面。
Later, Reactionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensified the worst aspects of gender relations.
事实上,今天的最佳处境是,国家实际上并没有被反动派所掌握,例如,委内瑞拉的查韦斯所处的情况。
In fact the best situations today are ones where the state is not really in the hands of the reactionaries, for example, the situation of Chavez in Venezuela.
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