English Dictionary

adventurism

/ədˈvɛn(t)ʃəɹɪz(ə)m/

noun

The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. / (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.

His adventurism led him to explore uncharted territories.

意味（1）

The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking.

[…] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]

意味（2）

(politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs.

Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.