cold war

英 [ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː(r)]

美 [ˌkoʊld ˈwɔːr]

n.  冷战(通常指第二次世界大战后美国与苏联之间的对峙局面)

法律

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牛津词典

noun

• 冷战（通常指第二次世界大战后美国与苏联之间的对峙局面）
  a very unfriendly relationship between two countries who are not actually fighting each other, usually used about the situation between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War

柯林斯词典

• N-PROPER （二战后开始的）冷战
  The Cold Warwas the period of hostility and tension between the Soviet bloc and the Western powers that followed the Second World War.
  1. ...the end of the cold war and the decline in armaments spending.
     冷战的结束和军备开支的减少
  2. ...the first major crisis of the post-Cold War era.
     冷战后第一次重大的危机

英英释义

noun

• a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare

双语例句

• By all means, you should take immediate action to stop this cold war.
  不管用什么方法，你都应该立即采取行动，制止这场冷战。
• President Mitterrand arrived in Hanoi yesterday to bury old colonial and cold war enmities.
  密特朗总统昨天到达河内，以期结束长久以来殖民战争和冷战造成的敌意。
• I hated the Cold War. I think we're very well out of it.
  我痛恨冷战。幸亏我们没有卷进去。
• America won the cold war and many Soviet satellite states were rapidly welcomed into the EU.
  美国赢得了冷战，苏联的许多卫星国很快投入了欧盟（eu）的怀抱。
• There are encouraging signs that cold war attitudes are on the way out
  有令人欣慰的迹象表明冷战思维即将成为历史。
• Liberal opinion regarded them as archaisms of the cold war which, they argued, was in the process of liquidation.
  自由派舆论认为这些限制都是冷战的遗风，他们认为冷战已在消失的过程中。
• I was to be taught Russian and then sent to Berlin as a Cold War spy.
  我学习了俄语，接着作为一名冷战间谍被送往了柏林。
• Is not it like opening the doors of a cold war with the dragon country.
  这会不会打开了和龙国冷战的大门。
• I looked forward to the end of the cold war, but now I feel disappointed.
  我希望冷战结束，但现在我感到失望。
• The cold war between the two countries lasted for eight years.
  两国之间的冷战持续了八年。