olive branch
常见例句
- The olive branch stands for peace.
橄榄枝象征着和平。 - [font=Verdana]Despite this, many in the West are itching to extend an olive branch to the new president.
尽管这样，许多西方人还是急于向新总统伸出橄榄枝。 - But with many government departments facing real cuts of 25% in their budgets over the next five years, that olive branch will almost certainly be spurned.
但在未来五年内，许多政府部门将真正面临25%的预算削减，几乎可以肯定的是，这一橄榄枝将遭到拒绝。 - Stuart Levy,a co-founder of Olive Branch D.C., a Washington-based interfaith group bringing together young professional Jews and Muslims.
- Most of the audience will miss it, along with the olive branch it represents.
FORBES: Atlas Shrugged Producer Shares Insights And A Surprise That Awaits In Atlas III - Likely, this particular platform plank is merely a political olive branch to the gold bugs.
FORBES: Gold Commission, Redux - The government needs to offer some olive branch to public opinion over fuel taxes.
ECONOMIST: Labour and fuel taxes 返回 olive branch