axis of evil

短语

邪恶轴心

发音

其它

词形变化

axes of evil 复数 axes of evil

别名

AOE

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A group of states accused by George W. Bush of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

    邪恶轴心

  2. 2.

    An anomaly in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background as the result of a preferential axis which may have shaped the development of the universe.

    天文

词源

Coined by American political commentator David Frum in 2002 and first used publicly by President George W. Bush in the 2002 State of the Union Address. Possibly from a historical analogy to the German-Italian-Japanese axis. Extended to astrophysics by Portuguese scientist João Magueijo in 2005.

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