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truce

/troos/US // trus //UK // (truːs) //

休战,停战,休战协议,休战状态

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a suspension of hostilities for a specified period of time by mutual agreement of the warring parties; cease-fire; armistice.
    • : an agreement or treaty establishing this.
    • : a temporary respite, as from trouble or pain.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounpeaceful solution

Examples

  • Germany’s foreign minister is expected in the region today for truce talks.

  • Formal truce talks started three days before the rebellion broke out.

  • For now, the number of desperate people from El Salvador has slowed, but that’s in part a result of ceasefires among criminal gangs, truces that may not last.

  • The pandemic has destabilized a loose truce between the tech sector and the cities it sought as partners in testing these products.

  • From gang-imposed curfews in Brazil’s favelas to South Africa, where gangs have embraced a truce and cooperated in the distribution of humanitarian aid, they’ve been helping hands.

  • “First of all, you are saving lives, and that matters,” said a source who has worked with the De Mistura team on the truce plan.

  • The Barzeh truce sparked outrage from commentators aligned with the opposition, who viewed it as little more than capitulation.

  • Since 2007, Maulvi Nazir and the Pakistani military had kept to an unwritten truce.

  • As a result, the temporary truce negotiated by the ICRC is uneasy and, at best, only partial.

  • Overcome by their desire for a truce, accepted a tool of war as a symbol of peace.

  • But at ten o'clock in the evening a flag of truce arrived offering a capitulation.

  • Truce now, Gregory; and consider how we can best dispose ourselves here, till the morning.

  • Openly, Edward maintained due observance of the truce, and by the middle of September 1320, had taken steps towards a final peace.

  • He proclaimed the truce publicly before Seton 'and a great assembly of people.'

  • He presently confirmed the thirteen years' truce (February 15), and appointed envoys to treat for final peace (March 4).