| 释义 | war clouds are gatheringidiom literary(alsoclouds of war are gathering)
 If you say that war clouds are gathering over a particular country, you mean that a war seems increasingly likely there: 战争阴云;战争的预兆
 It was the 1930s and war clouds were gathering on the horizon in Europe.时值20世纪30年代,战争的阴云笼罩在欧洲的地平线上。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 War
 antebellum
 anti-militarism
 asymmetric warfare
 battle-scarred
 bellicose
 conflagration
 germ warfare
 gung-ho
 holy war
 horizontal escalation
 phoney war
 SDI
 sinew
 sinews of waridiom
 smokescreen
 sniper's alley
 the Great War
 the Second World War
 World War I
 World War II
 
 
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