terrorism

英 ['terərɪzəm] 美 ['tɛrərɪzəm]

terrorism 恐怖主义

来自 terror,恐惧，惊恐，-ism,主义，思想。

terrorism (n.): 1795, in specific sense of "government intimidation during the Reign of Terror in France" (March 1793-July 1794), from French terrorisme, from Latin terror (see terror).
If the basis of a popular government in peacetime is virtue, its basis in a time of revolution is virtue and terror -- virtue, without which terror would be barbaric; and terror, without which virtue would be impotent. [Robespierre, speech in French National Convention, 1794]
General sense of "systematic use of terror as a policy" is first recorded in English 1798 (in reference to the Irish Rebellion of that year). At one time, a word for a certain kind of mass-destruction terrorism was dynamitism (1883); and during World War I frightfulness (translating German Schrecklichkeit) was used in Britain for "deliberate policy of terrorizing enemy non-combatants."

1. We have to make the states that sponsor terrorism pay a price.: 我们必须让那些支持恐怖主义的国家付出代价。

3. After a period of imprisonment she renounced terrorism.: 在被囚禁一段时间之后，她宣布放弃恐怖主义。

4. What separates terrorism from other acts of violence?: 恐怖主义和其他暴力行为的区别是什么？