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 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。
• A serious impediment to the attainment of both objectives is the present arms race.
  实现这两个目标的一个严重障碍就是目前的军备竞赛。
• You often hear that the United States and the Soviet Union are in an arms race.
  你们常常听说，美苏两国在进行军备竞赛。
• There are many factors driving this arms race.
  这轮军备竞赛背后有诸多驱动因素。
• The missile-reduction treaty makes sweeping cuts, but the arms race isn't over by a long shot.
  导弹削减条约大幅度减少了导弹数量，然而军备竞赛还远没有停止。
• 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。
• The big worry for investors is the cost of this arms race.
  投资者最大的担忧就是这场军备竞赛的成本。
• China has never participated and will never participate in any arms race in outer space, he said.
  他表示：中国从来没有、今后也不会参加任何形式的外空军备竞赛。
• But this particular arms race isn't in a dead heat the mavens of malware are winning it.
  但这不是一场势均力敌的军备竞赛，恶意软件的行家赢了。
• China does not participate in any nuclear arms race, and never deploys any nuclear weapons beyond its borders.
  中国不参加核军备竞赛，也从不在国外部署核武器。