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冷战

lěng zhàn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 冷戰

冷战 (Lěng zhàn) means "(US-Soviet) Cold War; cold war; (fig.) strained relationship". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 冷战 means

1. cold war
2. (fig.) strained relationship
3. to be barely on speaking terms

Other readings

冷战 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• lěng zhanshiver; shudder
• Lěng zhàn(US-Soviet) Cold War

The characters in 冷战

• 冷lěngcold
• 战zhànto fight; fight; war

Example sentences

• 冷战以苏联解体结束。
  Lěngzhàn yǐ Sūlián jiětǐ jiéshù.
  The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed.
• 是人都知道冷战是两国的对峙。
  Shì rén dōu zhīdào lěngzhàn shì liǎngguó de duìzhì.
  Everybody knows that Cold War is the confrontation between two nations.
• 就是冷战几十年后的今天，德国人和俄罗斯人之间还有很多伤痛，尤其是在那些被苏联占领的地区。
  Jiùshì lěngzhàn jǐ shí nián hòu de jīntiān, Déguórén hé éluósīrén zhījiān háiyǒu hěn duō shāngtòng, yóuqíshì zài nàxiē bèi Sūlián zhànlǐng de dìqū.
  Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russians, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.
• 虽然冷战已经过了这么多年，俄罗斯人和德国人之间的仇恨还是没有消除，在苏联曾经侵占过的地区，这种仇恨就更深了。
  Suīrán lěngzhàn yǐjīng guo le zhème duō nián, éluósīrén hé Déguórén zhījiān de chóuhèn háishi méiyǒu xiāochú, zài Sūlián céngjīng qīnzhàn guo de dìqū, zhèzhǒng chóuhèn jiù gēngshēn le.
  Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.

Words containing 冷战

• 打冷战dǎ lěng zhanto shiver; to shudder

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