Cold War

专有名词
/ˌkəʊld ˈwɔː/    /ˌkoʊld ˈwɔɹ/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The period of hostility short of open war between the Soviet Bloc and the Western powers, especially the United States, between 1945 and 1991. historical
    — Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.

词形变化

the Cold War canonical

词源

Coined by American journalist Herbert Bayard Swope in 1947, in a speech he wrote for Bernard Baruch (1870–1965), an American financier and adviser to President Woodrow Wilson.
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