大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 casus belli


释义：

casus belli n. （法）宣战的事件；开战的原因

例句：



But to our mind his casus belli still stands, despite the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction.

尽管没有找到大规模杀伤性武器，但是我们还是认为他的宣战原因成立。



The last city conquered from a player now provides a heavy warmonger penalty, even if you have a Casus Belli against this player, because you are wiping out a civilization.

征服某文明的最后一个城市现在会导致大量好战度，就算你有战争借口，因为你正在抹去一个文明的存在。



Religion is seldom the casus belli: indeed, in many struggles, notably the Middle East in modern times, it is amazing how long it took for religion to become a big part of the argument.

宗教信仰很少成为开战的理由：实际上，令人惊奇的是在很多斗争中，特别是在现代的中东，宗教信仰成为争论的焦点需要多少时间。



And to many it is a powerful casus belli to which a head of government has now lent credence.



The U.S. government should privately indicate to Pyongyang that any sales to terrorist groups would be a casus belli risking devastating retaliation.


The closest thing to a casus belli in Britain's drug war is a schedule of banned substances drawn up in the early 1970s.


But there is a danger that the failure to find an Arab-Kurdish solution for the disputed land will give the insurgents a perpetual casus belli.


Hypocritical perhaps, but the moral imperative not to let Mr Milosevic's brutality stand was a more convincing casus belli than Serbia's mere refusal to sign up at Rambouillet.


In the event Saddam did not acquiesce this "last" time, we are assured, it would provide a casus belli that would enjoy widespread, if not universal, international support.


In staking this false claim, as it did with the Shaba Farms on Mount Dov in the Golan Heights in 2000, Lebanon is setting up a casus belli against Israel.


The PLO was founded, and funded, by Arab leaders as a terrorist proxy before 1967 -- that is, before Israel gained the disputed territory of the West Bank that retroactively served as a Palestinian casus belli.


The bad news would be if, in addition to an intensified Intafada, Israel's other foes notably Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Libya perhaps joined by her two "partners for peace, " Egypt and Jordan, were to use Sharon's election as a casus belli.