arms race

英 [ˈɑːmz reɪs]

美 [ˈɑːrmz reɪs]

n.  军备竞赛

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牛津词典

noun

• 军备竞赛
  a situation in which countries compete to get the most and best weapons

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 军备竞赛
  Anarms raceis a situation in which two countries or groups of countries are continually trying to get more and better weapons than each other.
  1. ...a conference on ways to control the arms race in the region.
     商讨如何控制该地区军备竞赛的会议

英英释义

noun

• a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments

双语例句

• But the comparison with the nuclear arms race is, if anything, a little too comforting.
  但把它与核军备竞赛作比较就有点太让人安慰（若有的话）了。
• Group of Experts on the Economic and Social Consequences of the Arms Race and of Military Expenditures
  军备竞赛和军事支出的经济和社会后果问题专家
• The price of running this arms race to the end is death.
  把这场军备竞赛进行到底的代价是死亡。
• The temptation to rev up the arms race with high-tech weapons is especially dangerous
  通过研发高科技武器加速军备竞赛的诱惑尤其危险。
• Drug companies and our own antibodies are in a constant arms race with relatively simple organisms.
  医药公司和我们自身的抗体长期与一些简单的微生物病毒进行的持久的军备竞赛。
• All those who love peace are strongly against arms race.
  一切爱好和平的人们都要求禁止原子武器。所有爱好和平的人都强烈反对军备竞赛。
• This was fuelling an arms race and driving some countries to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
  这种态度和行为正在导致新的军备竞赛出现以及使某些国家设法得到大规模杀伤性武器。
• But this arms race strained the government's principles as well as its budgets.
  但是这场军备竞赛使政府的原则无法自圆其说，也使其预算捉襟见肘。
• China denies that a recent test of a ground-based anti-satellite missile could trigger an international space arms race.
  中国否认最近的地面反卫星导弹测试会引发国际空间武器竞赛。
• India, which developed nuclear weapons in an arms race with Pakistan, is not a signatory of the NPT.
  印度在与巴基斯坦的军备竞赛中发展了核武器，它不是核不扩散条约的签约国。