| 单词 |
cease-fire |
| 释义 |
cease fire, cease-fire
Also 9 cease firing.
[cease v. 6.]
a. Mil. A command (by word of mouth, bugle, etc.) to cease firing guns.
1847Infantry Man. (1854) 87 The fire is continued until the bugle sounds the Cease. Ibid. 89 The Cease firing has sounded. 1859Musketry Instr. 56 At the conclusion of the practice..the bugler is to sound the ‘cease fire’. 1884Daily News 14 Mar. 6/3 ‘Cease-fire’ presently sounded. 1916‘Ian Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xiii. 169 Both sides then proceed to discharge blank ammunition into one another's faces..until the ‘cease fire’ sounds. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Rev. 139 The vast stores we shall need to rush into Europe as soon as the ‘cease fire’ sounds.
b. A cessation of shooting or fighting; an armistice.
1918Times 12 Nov. 9/2 The ‘Cease fire’ of yesterday must be final and universal. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars cxiii. 597 Nuri put, as the condition of cease-fire, their instant ejectment of the Turks from the houses. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulf. 188 The Jews accepted the Security Council's call for a cease-fire, the Arabs rejected it. 1965Spectator 15 Jan. 64/3 The Indonesians are willing to call a ceasefire. |
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