deterrence

英 [dɪˈterəns]

美 [dɪˈtɜːrəns]

n.  (尤指对战争或犯罪的)威慑，吓阻，遏制

法律

Collins.1 / BNC.17622 / COCA.12091

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT （尤指对战争或犯罪的）威慑，吓阻，遏制
  Deterrenceis the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
  1. ...policies of nuclear deterrence.
     核威慑政策

英英释义

noun

• the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
• a communication that makes you afraid to try something
  Synonym:determentintimidation
• a negative motivational influence
  Synonym:disincentive

双语例句

• Osama bin Laden has no interest in deterrence or other forms of deadly bargaining.
  奥萨马本拉登（OsamabinLaden）对于威慑或其它形式的殊死谈判毫无兴趣。
• Militarily, our basic defense strategy is deterrence.
  在军事上，我们的基本防御战略是威慑战略。
• Specialists in nuclear deterrence occupy a world that requires the coldly rational contemplation of completely insane courses of action.
  核威慑专家所处的，是一个需要对完全疯狂的行为进行冷静理性思考的世界。
• That way, nuclear deterrence would be maintained-while reducing the risk of tragic accidents.
  如此一来，核威慑将得以保持，同时降低了发生悲剧性事件的风险。
• The war, Israeli officials say, has been fought in the name of deterrence.
  以色列官员称，战争是以威慑的名义打响的。
• Is external intervention into civil wars best thought of as a deterrence problem or a coercion problem?
  对内战的外部干预最好被看作是威慑问题还是高压政治问题？
• Will our deterrence posture help the United States encourage others to reduce their arsenals and advance our nonproliferation agenda?
  我们的威慑姿态是否将有助于美国鼓励其他国家减少它们的库存和推动我们的核不扩散议程？
• In crisis management and conflict analysis, it is an unsolved problem whether pairwise mutual deterrence has stability.
  在危机管理和冲突分析中，力量对等冲突方之间的相互威慑是否具有稳定性问题，一直存在疑义。
• We don't expect the Deterrence change to solve the former problem obviously.
  我们不期望威慑的调整能明显解决前面的问题。
• They argued that our policy of deterrence was still justified.
  他们辩称我们的威慑政策仍然是正当的。