The Senate has voted to support the President's defense plans. 参议院已经投票支持总统的防卫计划。
A defense mechanism in which there is an unconscious shift of emotions, affect, or desires from the original object to a more acceptable or immediate substitute. 移情作用;情感转移一种防卫机制,情感、影响、愿望从原始目标潜意识地转移到一个立即或更可接受的替代对象
defense
[ noun ]
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
<noun.act> they died in the defense of Stalingrad they were developed for the defense program
protection from harm
<noun.act> sanitation is the best defense against disease
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
<noun.group> his teams are always good on defense
the justification for some act or belief
<noun.communication> he offered a persuasive defense of the theory
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
<noun.process>
the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
<noun.group>
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
<noun.group> the defense called for a mistrial
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
<noun.communication> his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive in defense he said the other man started it
an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
<noun.group> he joined the defense against invasion
a structure used to defend against attack
<noun.artifact> the artillery battered down the defenses
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
<noun.act> he gave evidence for the defense
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury
<noun.act> a good boxer needs a good defense defense against hurricanes is an urgent problem
Defense \De*fense"\, Defence \De*fence"\, n. [F. d['e]fense, OF. defense, fem., defens, masc., fr. L. defensa (cf. LL. defensum), from defendere. See {Defend}, and cf. {Fence}.] 1. The act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.
In cases of defense 't is best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems. --Shak.
2. That which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.
War would arise in defense of the right. --Tennyson.
God, the widow's champion and defense. --Shak.
3. Protecting plea; vindication; justification.
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense. --Acts xxii. 1.
4. (Law) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.
5. Act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.
A man of great defense. --Spenser.
By how much defense is better than no skill. --Shak.
6. Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance. [Obs.]
Severe defenses . . . against wearing any linen under a certain breadth. --Sir W. Temple.
Defense \De*fense"\, v. t. To furnish with defenses; to fortify. [Obs.] [Written also {defence}.]
Better manned and more strongly defensed. --Hales.
Turco said the study assumes that in even a small nuclear exchange the primary target would be oil and gas storage areas because such material is vital to military defense.
Up to 400 guerrillas participated in the pre-dawn attack on the civil defense post in Zaragoza, 10 miles south of San Salvador, an army sergeant said.
Pax World Fund avoids the top 100 defense contractors but accepts companies that do business in South Africa.
Saunders obtained the information from former Navy procurement official George G. Stone, who pleaded guilty to participating in the scheme, and passed it along to defense consultant Thomas E. Muldoon.
That the party probably would ask for the powerful ministries of foreign affairs and finance, in addition ot defense and internal affairs.
Italy had a major bribery scandal a decade ago in which a former defense minister and an air force chief were convicted of accepting payoffs from Lockheed, the U.S. aircraft manufacturer.
Delvalle fired military strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega last Thursday but the defense chief ignored the order and rallied his allies in the National Assembly against the president.
"Never before in the history of American criminal law has a court granted the prosecution such a one-sided bonanza of information about the defense case," lawyers Brendan V. Sullivan Jr. and Barry S. Simon said in the pleading filed Monday.
Outside court, defense attorney Ray Clark said Ramirez "has good days and bad days." "He just doesn't like court," said Clark.
An agreement forged last month between the Czech, Slovak and federal governments keeps foreign policy, defense, general economic and monetary policy under federal control.
Great Northern had raised the antitrust issues in a federal lawsuit in Connecticut that it considered its first line of defense in the takeover battle.
Robert McCormick, deputy assistant secretary of defense for production support, confirmed that the new buy-American rules will go into effect today, but he declined to give details.
Kitty Hawk was hardest hit, with $2 million in damages reported by Friday night, said Dare County civil defense officials.
"If they bring large formations, air defense systems are part of these formations," he said, and Israel would fear that Syrian missiles could interfere with its aerial surveillance.
Hoeveler assigned Turnoff to listen to the tapes to avoid being "tainted" by having learned details of Noriega's defense strategy.
The Labor Department's earnings data are used to index hundreds of billions of dollars of defense contracts.
"But your son has obligations as a soldier," said the prince, who also is the Saudi defense minister.
Some military officials are uncertain that Fujitsu can be trusted to protect classified defense technology.
Falwell denied the account given by builder Roe Messner, who testified for the defense at Bakker's fraud trial.
The petroleum industry as a whole did not reap a third-quarter windfall from the Persian Gulf crisis, a leading trade group said in a defense of Big Oil against charges of profiteering.
He engineered a huge defense buildup and ended the nation's post-Vietnam paralysis by projecting military power in Grenada, Libya and the Persian Gulf.
Defense attorney John Gill said the court automatically rejected defense arguments.
Woerner, former German defense minister, led off the outdoor celebrations at NATO headquarters on an unseasonably cold day in Brussels.
On his arrival from Poland, Walesa told a news conference at Heathrow Airport that he expected Eastern bloc defense budgets to decline gradually as democratic reforms are enacted.
Paisley, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, engineering and systems from 1981 to April 1987, is now a Washington consultant to numerous defense contractors, including McDonnell Douglas Corp. and United Technologies Corp.
"Everyone who is in Wisconsin doing defense work gets tender loving care from this congressman," he said.
Little legislation has moved through the Congress so far this year, with most of the time spent on the failed plan to raise congressional pay and the Senate battle over the nomination of John Tower for defense secretary.
Gov. Evan Mecham's lawyer accused a state agency of intmidating defense witnesses Monday as he moved for a mistrial or dismissal of charges at the governor's impeachment trial.
One of the Navy's highest-ranking admirals has asked to retire after being disciplined for alleged personal misconduct while stationed in Italy, according to the Navy and defense sources.
The report also said McDonnell Douglas Corp. was one of the few major defense contractors to post a sales increase for the year.