| 单词 | axis powers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAxis powers b. figurative. The relation between countries regarded as a common pivot on which they revolve; esp. the political association of 1936 (becoming in 1939 a military alliance) formed between Italy and Germany; later extended to that between Germany, Italy, and Japan; still later to that between other allied countries. Often used attributively, as Axis forces, Axis powers, and elliptically for such phrases, with consequent plural agreement. Also transferred, of any comparable association, or connecting common interest. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances auld alliance1566 the League1589 armed neutrality1780 German Confederation1786 Germanic Confederation1815 Holy Alliance1823 the Concert of Europe1841 Sonderbund1847 Triplice1896 Soviet block1919 communist bloc1922 Eastern bloc1922 Soviet bloc1924 axis1936 Rome–Berlin Axis1936 Eastern block1938 communist block1941 Western European Union1944 Arab League1945 Western Union1948 Atlantic Pact1949 NATO1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949 Seato1954 W.E.U.1954 Warsaw Pact1955 Atlantic Alliance1958 ASEAN1967 G201972 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > ally > group of allied states community1780 international community1832 Amphictyony1835 power bloc1925 power block1928 axis1936 club1950 1936 Times 3 Nov. 15/1 The ‘Rome–Berlin axis’ is a conceit which has its momentary attractions. 1938 New Statesman 19 Feb. 274/2 He [sc. King Carol of Rumania] will as before try to keep one foot in the Franco-Russian camp and the other in that of the Axis Powers. 1939 Times 6 Feb. 11/1 (headline) Attacks on the Axis. 1941 Time 21 Apr. 34/3 The London–Washington Axis. 1942 Times Weekly 7 Jan. 5 The 26 anti-Axis nations are united..in the broad conduct of the war. 1952 Economist 19 July 145/1 The Moscow–Peking axis. 1952 Economist 22 Nov. 531/1 One [proposal] is for an Old Vic–Stratford axis, with an exchange of productions. 1959 New Statesman 7 Feb. 177/1 The term ‘axis’ is looked on with disfavour here [i.e. in Bonn] as a reminder of the Berlin–Rome–Tokyo axis of the Nazis. < as lemmas |
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