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

• The era of international bickering and cold war obstructionism has finally ended.
  国际争吵和冷战蓄意阻挠的时代终于结束了。
• Immigrants took up arms to preserve our union, to defeat fascism, and to win a Cold War.
  是移民们拿起武器，维护了我们的合众国，打败了法西斯，取得了冷战的胜利。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• But this is not your father's Cold War.
  但是，这不是你父亲的冷战。
• With the Cold War almost over, the talks were a mere formality.
  随着冷战即将结束，对话就只是一种形式了。
• They were reaching out the hand of friendship to their former adversaries of the Cold War
  他们向从前冷战时期的对手伸出友谊之手。
• 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。