arsenal of democracy

短语

别名

Arsenal of Democracy

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The United States of America, as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; or post-war U.S. as the manufacturer and possessor of the greatest quantity of advanced military weaponry in the world, in the service of defending governments favouring the United States, mostly democracies.

    比喻 政治

    The United States, he contends, is no longer the arsenal of democracy. Nor does it have a clear technological advantage over the Soviet Union.

词源

Introduced to wide usage (although probably not first used) by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in December, 1940.

来源：wiktionary