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单词 sitzkrieg
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sitzkriegn.

Brit. /ˈsɪtskriːɡ/, U.S. /ˈsɪtsˌkriɡ/
Forms: 1900s– sitzkreig (irregular), 1900s– sitzkrieg. Also with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from German, combined with an English element. Etymons: German sitz- , sitzen , blitzkrieg n.
Etymology: < German sitz-, combining form of sitzen sit v. + -krieg (in blitzkrieg n.).German Sitzkrieg (1952 or earlier) is < English.
The period of comparative inaction at the beginning of the Second World War (1939–45), between the German invasion of Poland (September 1939) and that of Norway (April 1940). Hence more generally: a period of relative inaction in any war or confrontation. Cf. phoney war n. at phoney adj. and n. Compounds.
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political warfare1765
propaganda war1838
white war1931
phoney war1939
sitzkrieg1940
cold war1945
1940 N.Y. Times 21 Feb. 4/7 The R.A.F. referred to the war as a ‘Sitzkrieg’, which it translated as ‘sit-down war’.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Nov. 1/6 (heading) Temporary ‘sitzkrieg’ on Garigliano sector.
1970 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 Dec. 3/1 (heading) Old men prepare for sit-in battle... Thirty-six old men..yesterday settled down to a ‘sitzkrieg’ in the Battle of Rosebank—the Glebe, Sydney, aged men's home.
1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 4 Dec. (Midwestern ed.) 6/1 Most observers think the two armies will become involved in a ‘sitzkrieg’, meaning a long military waiting game.
2014 B. Yenne Hap Arnold vii. 75 In April [1940], the sitzkrieg abruptly reverted to blitzkrieg, as the Wehrmacht swept through Denmark and Norway.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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