单词 | ultima ratio |
释义 | ‖ ultima ratio|ˈʌltɪmə ˈreɪʃɪəʊ| [L.] Final sanction.
1848Mill Polit. Econ. I. ii. ix. 375 The Irish cottier..protects himself by the ultima ratio of a defensive civil war. a1902S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) lxv. 292 There can be no doubt about faith and not reason being the ultima ratio. 1910G. K. Chesterton George Bernard Shaw 26 The very logic of the Irishman makes him regard war or revolution as extra-logical, an ultima ratio which is beyond reason. 1933Times Lit. Suppl. 29 June 436/4 The rod is still the ultima ratio of so many teachers. 1969P. Anderson in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 226 The cultural limitations of bourgeois reason in England were thus politically rational: the ultima ratio of the economy founded both. |

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