[mass noun]the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad (尤指一国代表在国外的)外交职业,外交活动,外交手腕 an extensive round of diplomacy in the Middle East. 在中东地区进行的一轮广泛的外交活动。 ■the art of dealing with people in a sensitive and effective way (处理人际关系的)手腕,圆滑;得体 his genius for tact and diplomacy. 他机敏圆滑的天赋。
语源
late 18th cent.: from French diplomatie, from diplomatique 'diplomatic', on the pattern of aristocratie 'aristocracy'