c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 1 Nick Turse, Overkill; Future weapons, future wars, and the new arms race.
TomDispatch.com, Jan 31, 2011.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175349/
My comment:
(a) Skip the first six parageraphs.
(b) Of these programs, I heard of--and introduced--just one recently: Long
Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM).
(c) broadside (n): "all the guns on one side of a ship; also : their
simultaneous discharge"
(d) For boarding party, see
boarding (attack)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_(attack)
(in most contexts, it refers to the forcible insertion of personnel that are
not members of the crew by another party without the consent of the captain
or crew)
(e) The "sporting" in "sporting chance."
sporting (adj):
"1b : marked by or calling for sportsmanship
c : involving such risk as a sports contender may expect to take or
encounter "
www.m-w.com |
|
