a person who uses, or is willing to use, force or strong pressure to achieve their aims, especially to achieve social or political change 使用或愿意使用武力或强大压力来达到其目的的人,尤指为了实现社会或政治变革 Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘engaged in warfare’): from Old French, or from Latin militant- ‘serving as a soldier’, from the verb militare, from miles, milit- ‘soldier’. The current sense dates from the early 20th cent.