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iron curtain

铁幕,铁帷幕,铁幕的作用

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
    • : an impenetrable barrier to communication or information, especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as insilence
as innoiselessness
as inquietness
as insoundlessness
as inspeechlessness

Examples

  • Cruce operates the Iron Hill Campground on the other side of the highway.

  • After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.

  • They keep their heads low while running behind a large curtain covering the opening between two housing blocks.

  • Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.

  • A whole population of 11 million with every iron in the fire doubling as a finger in a dike.

  • She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

  • Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.

  • I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.

  • Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.

  • She was in a dream of oily odours and monstrous iron constructions, dominated by the grand foreman: and Edwin was in the dream.