| 单词 | war machine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar machine war machine n. (a) an instrument or weapon of war; (b) the military resources of a country organized for waging war. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > an equipment or instrument of war enablement1495 war machine1749 society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > organization of war war machine1914 society > armed hostility > military power > [noun] > military resources defence1798 war machine1914 1749 in tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) XII. Index p. xxxv/2 Corvus, war machine. 1766 R. Andrews tr. Virgil Aeneid iv. in Wks. 223 Unfinish'd hang the works, Huge walls, and war-machines that threat the sky. 1800 London Chron. 7 Feb. 135/2 He hoped the House would pause before they let down the war machine, which had been so successfully employed by this country to secure the independence of Europe. 1881 W. D. Hay 300 Years Hence iv. 70 The last inventions in war-machines. 1914 W. J. Bryan Mem. (1925) 390 The allies see peace only in a success so signal as to crush the German war machine. 1979 Sci. Amer. Mar. 123/1 With the introduction of catapults, together with other war machines just coming into use in the West, sieges became more effective. 2000 Observer 18 June 29/3 The United Nations and the might of the Pentagon's war machine dithered in Mogadishu. < as lemmas |
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