香港新闻工作者从业英语词典（133）

　　Coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war.

　　联军遭受更多反击。

　　The coalition forces also braced for more retaliatory strikes.

　　避免伤害平民avoid innocent casualties

　　避开evade

　　避过战祸avert a war

　　隐形战机stealth fighter

　　断断续续的战争sporadic fighting

　　转移人们对即将来临的弹劾投票的视线to divert attention from their impending impeachment vote against him over the Monica Lewinsky scandal

　　骑兵cavalry

　　严阵以待stands in combat readiness

　　舰队司令admiral

　　苏30战机Sukhoi-30 jets

　　谴责英美对伊拉克动武denounced the US and British attacks on Iraq

　　轰炸机bomber

　　台海两岸的军事平衡the military balance in the Taiwan Strait

　　台湾重新向美国提出购买三十部战斗直升机，以加强军事实力抗衡中国。

　　Taiwan has renewed its request to buy 30 advanced combat helicopters from the United States to boost its defences against the mainland.

　　正在囤积大规模毁灭性武器was amassing a WMD stockpile

　　由于恐怕未来六年会失去台海的空中优势，台湾正考虑向法国购买最先进的「疾风」战机，提升台湾的防御能力。

　　Taipei is considering buying the most advanced French Rafale jets to upgrade its defences amid fears it will lose air superiority to Beijing in another six years.

　　同意出售强力武器予台湾approved a robust arms package for Taiwan

　　如果美国售予台湾像神盾级战舰般的先进武器，中美关系将会大受影响。

　　If the US were to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan such as the Aegis， that could be very detrimental to China-US relations.

　　没有承诺会再向台湾售卖武器made no clear commitment in approving new arms sales to the island

　　售卖武器予台湾自卫providing Taiwan arms for self-defence

　　这是陈水扁的惯常伎俩，用以争取更多人支持购买大量武器的计划。

　　It was Chen's usual trick to get more support for the huge arms purchase programme.

　　无意展开军事竞赛had no intention of starting an arms race

　　该款驱逐舰每艘造价一亿美元，具有可同时追踪海陆空一百多个目标的雷达和计算机。

　　The destroyers， priced at US$1 billion each， have a radar and computer array capable of simultaneously tracking more than 100 targets on land， air and sea.

　　对台售武计划arms-sales plan for Taiwan

　　维持两岸军事力量平衡help maintain the military balance of power in the Taiwan Strait

　　暂时停止向台售卖四艘精密的驱逐舰scotched the immediate sale to Taiwan of four sophisticated destroyers

　　帮助台湾自卫help Taiwan defend itself

　　扩充军备expanding military build-up

　　中子弹neutron bomb

　　互相以核武瞄准对方aim their nuclear weapons at each other

　　北韩的核武挑衅North Korean nuclear belligerence

　　北韩的确拥有核武。

　　North Korea indeed possesses nuclear weapons.

　　北韩核武计划North Korea's nuclear weapons programme

　　正准备地下核试in the process of preparing for underground nuclear tests

　　全面禁止核试条约Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

　　没有核武的国家nations without nuclear weapons

　　防止核武扩散curtail the spread of nukes/halt the spread of nuclear weapons

　　放射性物质radioactive material

　　放弃所有核武abandon all nuclear weapons

　　放弃所有核武和核子计划abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes

　　威逼北韩停止发展核武pressuring Pyongyang into surrendering its nuclear bomb programs

　　原子武器atomic weapons

　　原爆受害者a victim of the A-bomb

　　核子武器/核武nuke/nukes

　　核子武器研究机构a nuclear-weapons research facility

　　核子计划nuclear programs

　　核子原料nuclear material

　　核子弹头nuclear warheads

　　核子战争、核战nuclear war

　　核不扩散条约the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

　　核武的威胁the nuclear threat

　　核武计划nuclear program

　　核武原料的钸weapons-grade plutonium

　　核武国家不愿放弃核武。

　　States with nuclear weapons are reluctant to disarm.

　　核武势力/拥有核武的国家nuclear powers

　　核武器小型化技术the nuclear weapon miniaturisation technology

　　核武器的扩散nuclear proliferation

　　核弹/核子弹nuclear bombs

　　核爆nuclear explosions

　　秘密发展核武pursue a secret nuclear-weapons programme

　　停止核武扩散halt the spread of nuclear weapons

　　停止核试end its nuclear testing programme

　　国际原子能总署International Atomic Energy Agency （IAEA）

　　无法保证袭击伊朗就能彻底破坏所有伊朗核设施。

　　There is no guarantee that such an attack would eliminate all of Iran's nuclear sites.

　　发展核武develop nuclear weapons

　　裁减核武reduce nuclear weapons

　　搜寻伊拉克境内的核子武器searching Iraq for nuclear weapons