| 单词 | peacetime |
| 释义 | peace-time, peacetime
Also peace time.
[peace n. 17.]
The time when a country is not at war. Also U.S. (with pl.), a period during which no declaration of war is in force. Also attrib.
1551R. Robinson tr. More's Utopia i. sig. C v recto, The hole realme is fylled and besieged wyth hierede soldiours in peace tyme, yf that be peace. 1917A. G. Empey Over Top 311 Territorial, a peace-time soldier with the same status as the American militiaman. 1923Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. 5 In peace time at sea. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 16 Apr. 8/3 His [sc. Roosevelt's] savage attacks in 1932 upon Mr. Hoover's Administration as the greatest spender of all peacetimes. 1940Economist 5 Oct. 426/2 Already its price is more than four times the peace⁓time level. 1942Short Guide Gt. Brit. (U.S. War Dept.) 23 Most British food is imported even in peacetimes. 1952R. Knox Hidden Stream xii. 106 I should want to take a good look round, as we did in the days of old-fashioned, peace-time shopping. 1955Times 5 July 10/1 After transfer the Royal Navy will continue to enjoy the facilities of the Simonstown base in peace-time. 1968S. Hynes Edwardian Turn of Mind viii. 273 That curious last-minute plunge toward the twentieth century that marked so strikingly that last peace-time summer. 1971S. Hill Strange Meeting iii. 188, I hope all the rest will not be spoilt for leave, or peace-time. 1971W. H. McNeill in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 47/1 War-born techniques of administrative mobilization were carried over into peacetime. |
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