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armsHB:mz, $B:rmzpl n武器，军火，军备They have been charged with supplying arms (=weapons and equipment used to kill and injure people) to the guerillas.他们被指控向游击队提供武器。An arms cache was discovered in South Wales.在南威尔士发现一处秘密军火库。The minister has called on the terrorists to lay down their arms (=stop fighting).部长呼吁恐怖分子放下武器。They are willing to take up arms (=prepare to fight) (against the government) if they have to.如果不得不拿起武器(反抗政府)的话，他们是随时准备那样做的。The rebels now have thousands of people under arms (=having weapons and being willing to fight).叛军现有数千人的兵力。(infml) They're up in arms (=very angry) about/over the new management scheme.他们对新的管理制度怒不可遏。There's an arms-control agreement between the superpowers limiting the number of weapons that each is allowed to possess.超级大国之间制订了一项军备控制协议，限制各方可允许拥有的武器数量。The arms race is the situation in which two or more countries try to have more and stronger weapons than each other.军备竞赛"To take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them" (Shakespeare, Hamlet 3. 2)“拿起武器来面对无穷的困扰，/以无畏的反抗将之消灭。”(莎士比亚《哈姆莱特》)
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