arsenal

Related topics: Weapons

1 WEAPONa large group of weapons that someone has 储备的大批武器

Britain’s nuclear arsenal

英国的核武器

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an arsenal of guns

大批枪支

2. PMWWEAPONa building where weapons are stored 武器库，军火库

3 the equipment, methods etc that someone can use to help them achieve something 〔设备、方法等的〕宝库，珍藏

a software package that’s now part of our arsenal

现已成为我们法宝之一的一个软件包

arsenal of

He has a whole arsenal of cameras.

他有各种各样的相机。

Examples from the Corpus

arsenal• He can then arm an arsenal of microorganisms with an inherited lust for a variety of dioxin compounds.• Police have discovered an arsenal of guns and ammunition in a London house.• Coetzee took possession of a considerable arsenal at Vlakplaas.• I say nuclear catastrophe partly because any exchange of nuclear arsenals will bear no resemblance to anything that could be called war.• The nuclear arsenals of the superpowers had in-creased.• Instead, the arsenal ship would have relied on other warships to defend it against missile attacks.• In the meantime, the authorities had added light anti-tank weapons and recoilless rifles to the arsenal of the metropolitan police force.• Under the arsenal ship program, however, weapons makers and shipbuilders were working together.• Their arsenal includes both SAM 7 missiles and anti-tank weapons.• The only real weapons in your arsenal in this town are talent and a heckuva lot of money.

arsenal of• NATO forces possess an arsenal of 700 surface-to-air missiles.

Arsenaln

na very successful English football team from North London. They play at the Emirates stadium in Ashburton Grove, Islington. They have won the League Championship many times and have ‘done the Double’ (=won the League Championship and the FA Cup in the same year) three times, in 1971,1998, and 2002. In 1994 they won the Cup Winners’ Cup.

Origin arsenal

(1500-1600) Italian arsenale, from Arabic dar sina'ah “house where things are made”

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