militant

1. ADJ You use militant to describe people who believe in something very strongly and are active in trying to bring about political or social change, often in extreme ways that other people find unacceptable. 激進的

Militant mine workers in the Ukraine have voted for a one-day stoppage next month. 在烏尅蘭，激進的煤鑛工人們已經投票決定在下個月進行一天的罷工。

2. N-COUNT Militant is also a noun. 激進分子

Even now we could not be sure that the militants would not find some new excuse to call a strike the following winter. 即使到現在，我們也不能確定這些激進分子不會找到某個新的借口在下一年鼕天號召一場罷工。

3. militancyN-UNCOUNT 好戰性

...the rise of trade union militancy. …工會好戰情緒的高漲。