deterrence
英 [dɪˈterəns]
美 [dɪˈtɜːrəns]
n. (尤指对战争或犯罪的)威慑,吓阻,遏制
Collins.1 / BNC.17622 / COCA.12091
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT (尤指对战争或犯罪的)威慑,吓阻,遏制
Deterrenceis the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.- ...policies of nuclear deterrence.
核威慑政策
- ...policies of nuclear deterrence.
英英释义
noun
- the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
- a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- a negative motivational influence
双语例句
- Deterrence of aggression also demands forward defense.
制止侵略的措施还需要进行前沿防御。 - Yet the modernization of our strategic and conventional forces will assure that deterrence works and peace prevails.
然而只有使我们的战略力量和常规力量都现代化了,才能保证威慑有效,和平占上风。 - Will our deterrence posture help the United States encourage others to reduce their arsenals and advance our nonproliferation agenda?
我们的威慑姿态是否将有助于美国鼓励其他国家减少它们的库存和推动我们的核不扩散议程? - Specialists in nuclear deterrence occupy a world that requires the coldly rational contemplation of completely insane courses of action.
核威慑专家所处的,是一个需要对完全疯狂的行为进行冷静理性思考的世界。 - The age of deterrence is now the age of control, averting catastrophe fron weapons of mass destruction.
控制了这个时代,就如同用军事力量威胁着这个时代,但同时也能防止大规模杀伤性武器带来的灾难。 - They argued that our policy of deterrence was still justified.
他们辩称我们的威慑政策仍然是正当的。 - The United States has moved beyond the doctrine of Cold War deterrence reflected in the 1972 ABM Treaty.
美国已经跨出了1972年《反弹道导弹》条约所反映出的“冷战”威慑理论。 - The essential oil showed strong non-selective antifeedant and oviposition deterrence effect, but the persistence was not good.
龙柏精油对小菜蛾具有较强的非选择性拒食作用和产卵忌避作用,但由于精油的挥发性效果不持久。 - Much of the argument is about the nature of nuclear deterrence.
相关争论的很大一部分是关于核威慑的性质。 - Osama bin Laden has no interest in deterrence or other forms of deadly bargaining.
奥萨马本拉登(OsamabinLaden)对于威慑或其它形式的殊死谈判毫无兴趣。