| 释义 |
under armsEquipped and ready for war or battle: the country had up to one million men under arms...- If you are a state maintaining a million men under arms, in all sorts of places in the world, doing principally peacekeeping functions, you have to ask yourself to what degree this imposes greater cost on our missions.
- Although the country has a defence budget broadly equivalent to that of Switzerland, there are 1.35 million people under arms.
- The ministry, with about 1 million men under arms, is the country's largest armed forces agency.
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