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单词 cold war
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cold war
noun[C]
uk
/ˌkəʊld ˈwɔːr/us
/ˌkoʊld ˈwɔːr/
astateofextremeunfriendlinessexistingbetweencountries,especiallycountrieswithopposingpoliticalsystems, thatexpressesitself not throughfightingbut throughpoliticalpressureandthreats. Theexpressionis usually used of therelationshipbetween the US and theSovietUnionafter the SecondWorldWar.
（通常指二战后美国和苏联之间的）冷战
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(Definition ofcold warfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • And we have a cold war with only one country, and they're the only ones who'd play a deadly trick like this.
  • He makes his audience squirm with anxiety about how America is losing the cold war on all fronts, and makes them burn with desire to reverse this trend.

cold war| American Dictionary

cold war
noun[C]
us/ˈkoʊld ˈwɔr/
politics & government
acontinuinganddangerousunfriendlysituationexistingbetweencountriesthat isexpressedinpoliticalways, oftenincludingthreatsof war
world history
The Cold War was aperiodofpoliticaldifficultyinvolvingthe US and the USSR between 1945 and 1991.
(Definition ofcold warfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

cold war| Business English

cold war
noun[C]
(alsoCold War)
uk
us
POLITICS
anextremelyunfriendlyrelationshipbetweencountries, which isexpressednot throughfightingbut throughpoliticalpressureandthreats. Theexpressionusually refers to therelationshipbetween the US and theSovietUnionafter the SecondWorldWar:
With the Cold War over,globalwarminghasreplacednuclearwarfareas thesourceoffearsof aman-madeapocalypse.
(Definition ofcold warfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcold war

cold war
They must advance the cause of socialism while fighting acoldwaragainst the only existing 'socialist' nation.
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These differences set the stage for the transition from war tocoldwarin the borderlands.
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In many ways, the end of thecoldwarhas thrown some of the costs of the post-1945 peace settlement into even sharper relief.
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The fierce confrontation with communism in the earlycoldwaryears played a very important role in this remarkable transformation.
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The period of thecoldwaralso showed that war inside states does not mean that outside states are not involved in some fashion.
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The different national cultures of thecoldwarprevented more thorough and wide-ranging discussions.
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But both were external forces; internal governmental concerns usually played a more important role than thecoldwarstruggle.
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The implications of this line of argumentation may be lost on most readers today: thecoldwarhad just begun, anticommunism was a dominating sentiment.
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Rethinking thecoldwar; rethinking science and technology in thecoldwar; rethinking the social study of science and technology.
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The fruit of female sexuality was chaos - a common enough message in earlycoldwarliterature and drama.
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Both movements emerged within very specific national contexts framed by the national repercussions of thecoldwarand the specific political conditions in each country.
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This paper, devoted to a fragment of this story concerning thecoldwaryears, tries to give an answer to these questions.
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Somecoldwarhistorians are triumphalist, and celebrate winners and console losers, as if thecoldwarwas like all the others.
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This marked a triumphant crossing of thecoldwardivide, and the opening of tremendous economic opportunity.
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A number of books written by former diplomats focus on events that took place during thecoldwarera.
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