N a war in which the belligerents do not seek the total destruction of the enemy, esp one in which nuclear weapons are deliberately not used (目标不在彻底击败敌方的)有限战争; 特指有意不使用核武器的那类
Since the book was published, we had a limited war in Vietnam, in which a sector of the U.S. population wanted to lose the war in order to purify America’s soul.
该书出版后，我们又在越南打了一场有限战争，但是，由于部分美国公众要净化美国人的心灵，那场战争输掉了。
We must be more willing, not only to accept the prospect of limited war but, as Kissinger does in his book of a half century ago, to accept the prospect of a limited nuclear war between states.
我们不仅要接受有限战争的前景，而且更要有意愿接受基辛格半世纪前在书中提到的国与国之间有限核战争的前景。
The catastrophe of the second world war, and decades of living with limited sovereignty, taught the Germans the virtues of soft power and multilateralism.
第二次世界大战的灾难，加之国家在几十年间被限制主权，教会了德国人崇尚软权力与多元主义的价值。
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