peace·keep·ing /ˈpiːsˌkiːpɪŋ/adjectiveadj [only before noun]
peacekeeping force/troops etcPMAa group of soldiers who are sent to a place in order to stop two opposing groups from fighting each other 维持和平部队
The United Nations has decided to send a peacekeeping force into the area.
联合国决定向该地区派遣一支维和部队。
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peacekeeping force/troops etc• Because Oglala was so violent at that time, we were asked to be like a peacekeeping force.• They called for the removal of Eyadema, political neutrality by the army, and the creation of a specialpeacekeeping force.• It would be the first majorpeacekeeping forcedeployed in the WesternHemisphere.• The peacekeeping force has already been extended five times, and the deployment is now scheduled to end July 31.• A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.
—peacekeeper noun [countableC]
a group of UN peacekeepers
一队联合国维和人员
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peacekeeping• The world needs it, for peacekeepingduties as much as for diplomatic and economic ones.• A large peacekeeping force is now being assembled, ready to move at 48 hours' notice.• There is no doubt at all that without the peacekeeping force the war would have been worse than it was.• The United Nations has installed a peacekeeping force to maintain order until the elections in May 1993.• They signed a protocol on interimmeasures to establishpeacekeeping forces and militaryobservers.• If armedpeacekeeping forces are needed at all, they are needed because they can fight.• They are being held hostage with three other peacekeepingofficials after being accused of spying for the Phnom Penh Government.• Had a few thousand peacekeepingtroops been sent there as a sign of outsideconcern, that war just might have been avoided.