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

• 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。
• The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolised the end of the Cold War between East and West.
  柏林墙的倒塌象征着东西方冷战的结束。
• The crisis in Ukraine has revived memories of the cold war and sparked fears of a new one.
  乌克兰危机再度勾起了人们对冷战的回忆，并引发了人们对新冷战的担忧。
• Once the cold war had ended it was natural to ask why the western system had prevailed.
  冷战一结束，人们自然会提出一个问题：为什么西方制度获胜了？
• Since the end of the cold war, major and profound changes have taken place in the international situation.
  冷战结束后，国际形势发生了重大而深刻的变化。
• 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。
• The end of the Cold War opened the gate of another transition of the world system.
  冷战的终结，开启了世界体系又一次转型的大门。
• 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。
• This new nuclear age involves issues and perils quite different from those of the cold war.
  这个新核武器时代涉及的问题和危险与冷战时期截然不同。
• Together with our allies, we forged a lasting peace from a cold war.
  同我们的盟友一起，我们经历了冷战，缔造了持久和平。