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interwar

/in-ter-wawr/US // ˌɪn tərˈwɔr //UK // (ˌɪntəˈwɔː) //

战间,战时,战际,战间时期

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : occurring during a period of peace between two wars, especially between World War I and World War II.

Examples

  • The fear that we could follow the tapeworm was somewhat widespread in the interwar generation.

  • In a small society like that of interwar England, personality counted.

  • It would indeed be a tragedy if Europe splinters apart as it did in the interwar period.

  • Several of the interwar composers were still active in 1970, together with new younger composers.

  • The music of the interwar composers showed the influence of German romanticism and postromanticism and of modern French music.

  • Most members come from peasant or worker families and are veterans of the communist movement of the interwar period.