detente
detente 英 [ˌdeɪˈtɑ:nt] 美 [deɪˈtɑːnt]
n. （国际关系中紧张局面的）缓和
名词复数:detentes
- When opposing countries reach an understanding or truce, that's detente, meaning a loosening of tensions.
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- n. （国际关系中紧张局面的）缓和
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1. They talk about detente, but in actuality they are engaged in intense rivalry.
他们嘴里讲缓和，骨子里却进行激烈的争夺。
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2. The government warned of further austerity in the wake of hurricane damage and a sputtering economy, a sharp contrast to glimmers of diplomatic detente.
政府警告由于飓风和起伏的经济，形势将进一步恶化，而这与外交领域缓和的微弱信号形成了鲜明对比。
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3. Much like the long statements that the US and Soviet Union produced during their rare bouts of detente, however, a great deal of continuing disharmony could be read between the lines.
不过，就像美国与苏联在罕见的双方缓和时期出炉的长篇声明一样，从中美联合声明的字里行间，可以看出双方继续存在的不和。
- detente (n.) 1908 as a political term, a borrowing of French détente "loosening, slackening" (used in the Middle Ages for the catch of a crossbow), from Vulgar Latin detendita, fem. past participle of Latin detendere "loosen, release," from de- "from, away" (see de-) + tendere "stretch," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." The reference is to a "relaxing" in a political situation. The French word was earlier borrowed as detent (1680s) "catch which regulates the strike in a clock."
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