| 单词 | iron curtain |
| 释义 | iron curtain (once / 8324 pages) n WORD FAMILY iron curtain: iron curtains USAGE EXAMPLESCountries, left behind on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain after World War II, were free at last. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) During the cold war, “the west” was one side of the iron curtain; “the east” its opposite and enemy. The Guardian(Nov 09, 2016) When that fell in 1989, triggering the figurative collapse of the Iron Curtain, people began moving and trading en masse across increasingly porous European borders. Washington Post(Nov 01, 2016) n an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries Hyper ideological barrier a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies |
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