arms race

英 [ˈɑːmz reɪs]

美 [ˈɑːrmz reɪs]

n.  军备竞赛

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牛津词典

noun

• 军备竞赛
  a situation in which countries compete to get the most and best weapons

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 军备竞赛
  Anarms raceis a situation in which two countries or groups of countries are continually trying to get more and better weapons than each other.
  1. ...a conference on ways to control the arms race in the region.
     商讨如何控制该地区军备竞赛的会议

英英释义

noun

• a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments

双语例句

• India, which developed nuclear weapons in an arms race with Pakistan, is not a signatory of the NPT.
  印度在与巴基斯坦的军备竞赛中发展了核武器，它不是核不扩散条约的签约国。
• The arms race was a "rogue elephant" against which we all must act.
  军备竞赛是一只离群的大象我们大家都必须对它采取行动。
• Frank also sidesteps the idea that markets themselves can be structured to eliminate the arms race.
  弗兰克还回避了一点：即可以通过市场本身的结构设计，来消除这种“军备竞赛”。
• China's anti-satellite test a new arms race in space?
  中国反卫星试验，新的太空竞赛？
• But the comparison with the nuclear arms race is, if anything, a little too comforting.
  但把它与核军备竞赛作比较就有点太让人安慰（若有的话）了。
• Drug companies and our own antibodies are in a constant arms race with relatively simple organisms.
  医药公司和我们自身的抗体长期与一些简单的微生物病毒进行的持久的军备竞赛。
• The arms race is not the justice of socialism, it damaged the image of socialist.
  军备竞赛不是社会主义中的题中应有之义，祸害了社会主义的形象。
• Is a space-related arms race under way?
  涉及太空的军备竞赛正在进行吗？是的。
• Supercomputers are a classic example of an arms race.
  超级计算机是军备竞赛的一个典型示例。
• Group of Experts on the Economic and Social Consequences of the Arms Race and of Military Expenditures
  军备竞赛和军事支出的经济和社会后果问题专家