| 释义 |
rimland|ˈrɪmlənd|
[f. rim n.1 + land n.]
A peripheral area of land of political or strategic significance.
1944N. J. Spykman Geogr. of Peace iv. 38/1 The central continental plain can continue to be called the heartland but..it is..to be equated with the political extent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Beyond the mountain barrier, the coastland region..may..be referred to as the rimland, a name which defines its character accurately. Ibid. 43/2 In the three great world wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,..the British and Russian empires have lined up together against an intervening rimland power as led by Napoleon, Wilhelm II, and Hitler. 1973J. C. Plano et al. Polit. Sci. Dict. 331 Rimland theory, the theory that emphasizes the rimlands of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and the Far East as the keys to the security of the United States. 1979Daily Tel. 23 June 17/3 Commanders of the small forces of Western Europe are extremely disturbed by the strong hold the Soviet Union and its satellites have acquired in what are dubbed ‘the rimlands’ of the world's greatest concentration of crude oil in the Persian Gulf. |