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

• For twenty-nine years, Checkpoint Charlie embodied the Cold War
  29年来，查理检查站一直是冷战的象征。
• 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 cold war between the two countries lasted for eight years.
  两国之间的冷战持续了八年。
• 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。
• But this is not your father's Cold War.
  但是，这不是你父亲的冷战。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。