olive branch
基本解释
- 橄榄枝（象征和平）；谈和的建议；小孩
英汉例句
- The olive branch stands for peace.
橄榄枝象征着和平。 - [font=Verdana]Despite this, many in the West are itching to extend an olive branch to the new president.
尽管这样，许多西方人还是急于向新总统伸出橄榄枝。 - But with many government departments facing real cuts of 25% in their budgets over the next five years, that olive branch will almost certainly be spurned.
但在未来五年内，许多政府部门将真正面临25%的预算削减，几乎可以肯定的是，这一橄榄枝将遭到拒绝。 - Stuart Levy,a co-founder of Olive Branch D.C., a Washington-based interfaith group bringing together young professional Jews and Muslims.
- Most of the audience will miss it, along with the olive branch it represents.
FORBES: Atlas Shrugged Producer Shares Insights And A Surprise That Awaits In Atlas III - Likely, this particular platform plank is merely a political olive branch to the gold bugs.
FORBES: Gold Commission, Redux - The government needs to offer some olive branch to public opinion over fuel taxes.
ECONOMIST: Labour and fuel taxes
双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
词组短语
- olive -branch 橄榄枝
- tender the olive branch 伸出橄榄枝
- Comfort Suites Olive Branch 橄榄枝凯富酒店
- OLIVE BRANCH AIRPORT 橄榄枝村机场
- offer olive branch 表示愿意讲和
短语
英英字典
- something that you say or do in order to show that you want to end a disagreement with someone
- If you offer an olive branch to someone, you say or do something in order to show that you want to end a disagreement or quarrel.