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peacetime

/pees-tahym/US // ˈpisˌtaɪm //UK // (ˈpiːsˌtaɪm) //

和平时期,平时,和平年代,和平时代

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a time or period of peace: a large navy even in peacetime.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or for such a period: peacetime uses of atomic energy.

Examples

  • In return, the Department of Defense doles out peacetime airlift contracts to these airlines, running into tens of millions of dollars per year.

  • It’s really the worst peacetime recession in history since the Great Depression.

  • In more peacetime settings, transports that could launch durable scout aircraft could fly to the site of a natural disaster, and then use the drone to see if there is a viable landing area below.

  • He imagined a megafactory that “companies could use in peacetime” but that could be quickly reoriented to churn out shots during the next pandemic.

  • They sought to consolidate territorial gains, annex additional lands and insist on America’s “neutral rights” to trade in wartime or peacetime.

  • Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is a different sound for you.

  • Which is more than can be said during peace, witness peacetime politics.

  • The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

  • Nonetheless, FDR drummed up just enough support in the summer of 1940 to institute the first peacetime draft in American history.

  • At the same time, the Allies realized that their fellow wartime ally, the Soviet Union, would soon become their peacetime enemy.

  • Following the war Virginia returned to its two great peacetime interests—trade and expansion.

  • Bikini in 1946 was the scene of the first peacetime tests of atomic weapons.

  • The France to which tourists will come after the war will not be the France which peacetime visitors knew.

  • In peacetime, absolute accountability is required, because dollar economy in operations is a main object.

  • This is a process which must be mastered in peacetime, if it is to stand the multiplied strains of war.