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balance of terror (建立在核武器基礎上的)恐怖均勢。

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But neither can two great and powerful groups of nation take comfort from our present course , both sides over - burdened by the cost of modern weapons , both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom , and yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind ' s final war 但是,這兩個強大的國家集團都無法從目前所走的道路中得到安慰- - -發展現代武器所需的費用使雙方負擔過重,致命的原子武器的不斷擴散理所當然使雙方憂心忡忡,但是,雙方卻爭著改變那制止人類發動最后戰爭的不穩定的恐怖均勢。

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons , both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom , yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind ' s final war 但是,這兩個強大的國家集團都無法從目前所走的道路中得到安慰發展現代武器所需的費用使雙方負擔過重,致命的原子武器的不斷擴散理所當然使雙方憂心忡忡,但是,雙方卻爭著改變那制止人類發動最后戰爭的不穩定的恐怖均勢。

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course - - both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons , both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom , yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind ' s final war 可是這兩個強有力的國家集團,誰也不能對當前的趨勢放心雙方都因現代武器的代價而感到不勝負擔,雙方都對于致命的原子力量不斷發展而產生應有的驚駭,可是雙方都在競謀改變那不穩定的恐怖均衡,而此種均衡卻可以暫時阻止人類最后從事戰爭。

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons , both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom , yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind ' s final war 然而,這兩個強大的國家集團都不能對現狀高忱無憂雙方皆對現代化武器的開支感到不勝負擔,都對致命的原子力量的逐漸擴散理所當然地感到驚恐,但雙方都力圖改變那種遏制任何一方發動人類最后決戰的不穩定的恐怖均勢。

Nowhere is preventive defense more important than in countering the spread of nuclear , chemical and biological weapons . during the cold war , the world lived with the nightmare prospect of global nuclear holocaust , and the united states and the soviet union relied on deterrence , a balance of terror known as mutual assured destruction , or mad 一份對不良幫派所作的全國性調查中提到,三分之二的人表示,就為了別人對他們表現無禮而射殺他人這樣的作法并沒有錯,父母在讀到這類的報導時會感到畏懼厭惡,這不是種族主義。

The spokesman stressed the point that they ought to insist on maintaining the balance of terror 發言人強調的一點是他們應當堅決維持恐怖均勢。