world war

ˌworld ˈwar noun [countableC]

a war involving many of the countries of the world 世界大战

fears of another world war

对再次爆发世界大战的担心

Churchill was prime minister during the Second World War.

丘吉尔在第二次世界大战期间任首相。

the years after World War I

第一次世界大战后的岁月

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world war• That is almost twice as many as died in the first world war.• He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war.• At the beginning of the first world war he applied unsuccessfully to rejoin the army.• Never since the first world war have we had homeless teenage children begging in the streets.• The whispering against Bradman increased during the second world war.• We see newsreel footage of cavalry, blazing buildings, war planes - from revolutions, civil war, world war.

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