English Dictionary

scorched-earth policy

名詞

比喩的用法

(military) A strategy that involves destroying buildings, crops, and other resources that could be useful to opponents. / (figuratively) An intentional course of action that is drastic or ruinous.

日本語の意味

焦土作戦：軍事行動において、敵に利用される可能性のある建物、作物、その他の資源を破壊する戦略。 / 破滅的な政策・戦略：比喩的に、極端で壊滅的な結果を招く意図的な行動や政策を指す。

Facing an overwhelming invasion, the general ordered a scorched-earth policy to deny supplies to the enemy.

圧倒的な侵攻に直面し、将軍は敵に物資を与えないよう建物や作物、その他の資源を破壊する焦土作戦を命じた。

意味（1）

(military) A strategy that involves destroying buildings, crops, and other resources that could be useful to opponents.

The Ethiopian Army waged a scorched-earth policy with saturation bombings and destruction of Eritrea's infrastructure.

意味（2）

(figuratively) An intentional course of action that is drastic or ruinous.

The scorched-earth policy that voters adopted toward the Tories left them with no seats in Scotland and Wales and greatly reduced numbers through the prosperous swath called Middle England.

scorched-earth policies （ plural ）