| 单词 | theatre of war |
| 释义 | > as lemmastheatre of war c. A particular region or one of the separate regions of the world in which a war is being fought. Also theatre of war. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > place of war seat of war1673 theatre of war1914 1914 W. S. Churchill Let. 15 Oct. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. i. 193 The hand of war will I expect be heavy upon us in the Western Theatre during the next four weeks. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War xv. 160 (heading) Theatre of War. 1940 W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 261 Far larger operations no doubt impend in the Middle East theatre. 1958 E. Birney Turvey vii. 76 Turvey straightened his helmet and marched down the gangplank into the European Theatre of War. 1961 G. F. Kennan Russia & West viii. 118 Real fighting took place between Allied and Bolshevik forces only in one theater, in the Russian north. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xv. 352 The biggest and most decisive battle of the North African theater had been fought. < as lemmas |
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