2021-02-20
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด U – unilateral & bilateral
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง unilateral = ‘yoo-nuh-LAT-er-uhl’
ออกเสียง bilateral = ‘bahy-LAT-er-uhl’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Unilateral
Did You Know?
The world is a smaller place than it used to be,
and we get uncomfortable when a single nation
adopts a policy of unilateralism
—that is, acting independently with little regard
for what the rest of the world thinks.
A unilateral invasion of another country,
for instance, usually looks like a grab for power and resources.
But occasionallythe world welcomes a unilateral action,
as when the U.S. announced unilateral nuclear-arms reductions
in the early 1990s.
Previously, such reductions had only happened
as part of bilateral ("two-sided") agreements
with the old Soviet Union.
Multilateral agreements, on issues such as climate change,
often involve most of the world's nations.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Bilateral
Did You Know?
Since the prefix bi- means "two" in Latin,
bilateral means essentially "two-sided".
In the days when there were two superpowers,
the U.S. and the Soviet Union
regularly engaged in bilateral arms negotiations;
such negotiationsare much less common today.
Sometimes bilateral refers to two sides of the same thing.
A bilateral hip replacement, for instance,
replaces both hip bones in the same operation.
And bilateral symmetry (a term often used by biologists)
refers to the fact that, in many organisms(such as humans),
the left side is basically the mirror image of the right side.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions
unilateral& bilateral
Unilateral means “involving, affecting, obligating,
or recognizing one side only”
of two or more parties, persons, or nations.
Bilateral applies to two sides rather than one.
For example,
a bilateral agreement is binding on both parties,
a unilateral agreement on only one.
When two nations reach a bilateral decision,
responsibilityfor it is shared.
When a country acts independently, it does so in a unilateral way.
