| 单词 | maritime power |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaritime power maritime power n. (a) a country having naval supremacy; (b) naval and sea air forces. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > air force > [noun] maritime power1711 fourth arm1901 arm1908 air force1911 RFC1913 R.A.F.1918 Royal Air Force1918 U.S.A.A.F.1943 U.S.A.F.1947 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > [noun] > naval power > nation having maritime power1711 ocean power1713 society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] fleeta1000 floteOE ship-ferda1122 navya1382 armyc1475 armada1533 class1596 naval1627 armadilla1685 Grand Fleet1696 armament1698 maritime power1711 1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 31 This is what best became us to do as a Maritime Power. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 364 Britain..already assumed its natural and respectable station of a maritime power. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xvii. 167 They are relics of the grandeur of Genoa's palmy days—the days when she was a great commercial and maritime power several centuries ago. 1952 W. S. Churchill Second World War V. i. 3 ‘Maritime power’, a modern term expressing the combined strength of naval and air forces properly woven together. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 634/2 All maritime powers adopted the general design and it became customary to define battleships as dreadnoughts. < as lemmas |
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