Tory: [17] The term tory originally denoted an Irish guerrilla, one of a group of Irishmen who in the 1640s were thrown off their property by the British and took to a life of harrying and plundering the British occupiers (it is an anglicization of Irish *tóraighe ‘pursuer’, which was derived from tóir ‘pursue’). In the 1670s it was applied as a term of abuse to Irish Catholic royalists, and then more generally to supporters of the Catholic James II, and after 1689 it came to be used for the members of the British political party that had at first opposed the removal of James and his replacement with the Protestant William and Mary.
Tory (n.)
1566, "an outlaw," specifically "one of a class of Irish robbers noted for outrages and savage cruelty," from Irish toruighe "plunderer," originally "pursuer, searcher," from Old Irish toirighim "I pursue," from toir "pursuit," from Celtic *to-wo-ret- "a running up to," from PIE root *ret- "to run, roll" (see rotary).
About 1646, it emerged as a derogatory term for Irish Catholics dispossessed of their land (some of whom subsequently turned to outlawry); c. 1680 applied by Exclusioners to supporters of the Catholic Duke of York (later James II) in his succession to the throne of England. After 1689, Tory was the name of a British political party at first composed of Yorkist Tories of 1680. Superseded c. 1830 by Conservative, though it continues to be used colloquially. In American history, Tory was the name given after 1769 to colonists who remained loyal to George III of England; it represents their relative position in the pre-revolutionary English political order in the colonies. As an adjective from 1680s.
雙語例句
1. The country had confounded the pundits by electing a fourth-term Tory government.
該國國民連續四次選舉托利黨來執掌政府，這令專家們困惑不已。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Tory-bashing or Labour-bashing will not be enough to shift bored, suspicious voters.
抨擊保守黨或工黨並不足以改變那些心生厭倦、心存懷疑的選民的態度。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Shopkeepers would once have been pillars of the Tory establishment.
商店店主一度本該成為保守黨統治集團的重要支柱。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Worst-hit areas were Tory heartlands in London and the South-East.
受影響最嚴重的是倫敦及英國東南部的保守黨核心勢力地區。
來自柯林斯例句
5. She rose up the Tory hierarchy by the local government route.