守势的 meaning in English
defensive
passive
Examples
- A security council meeting was likely to generate rhetoric that put us on the defensive .
安理会如果开会，很可能会引出使我们处于守势的讲话。 - We took a defensive attitude in the negotiation
我们在谈判时采取守势的态度。 - When attacking an enemy who is on the defensive strategically , the red army usually dispeses its own forces
当着我们向战略上取守势的敌人进攻时，红军往往是分散的。 - But hence it follows that the same new forces which have hitherto served particularly for production will not withhold their services from destruction , and will principally favour the side of defence , and especially the european continental nations , while they threaten the insular state with the loss of those advantages which have been gained by her insular position for her defence
但是同时也可以推想得到的是，原来专用于生产的新生力量同样也可以为破坏性的战争服务，这一点将主要有利于取守势的一方，特别是欧洲国家，而英国原来以岛国地位在防御上所占有的优势，或将由此丧失。