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war clouds are gathering idiom 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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