arsenal of democracy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The United States of America, as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; or post-war U.S. as the manufacturer and possessor of the greatest quantity of advanced military weaponry in the world, in the service of defending governments favouring the United States, mostly democracies. figuratively
    — In a fireside shout Franklin Roosevelt this week told Business and Labor that they would have to speed up the job of making the U. S. the "arsenal of democracy".

词形变化

Arsenal of Democracy alternative

词源

Introduced to wide usage (although probably not first used) by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in December, 1940.
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