second world

基本解釋

Figures released last week confirmed that the last half of 2008 saw the most savage contraction in demand for motor vehicles since the second world war.
自二次世界大戰(zhàn)以來，2008年后半年見證了最為慘重的機動車輛需求緊縮。上周公布的數(shù)據(jù)證實了這一點。
The US energy secretary, Stephen Chu, likened the initiative to the breakthrough in seed technology after the second world war that dramatically boosted food production.
美國能源部長朱棣文把這種創(chuàng)新比作第二次世界大戰(zhàn)后極大地提高糧食生產(chǎn)的種子技術(shù)的突破。
That loss of competitiveness could prove another obstacle to a speedy recovery as the world's largest economy shows signs of emerging from its deepest recession since the Second World War.
在美國出現(xiàn)從二戰(zhàn)以來最為嚴(yán)重的經(jīng)濟衰退中復(fù)蘇的跡象之際，競爭力的喪失可能成為這個全球最大經(jīng)濟體快速復(fù)蘇的另一個障礙。

Many voters were dissatisfied with the L.D.P.and its reaction to Japan's worst recession since the Second World War.
A poem published after the Second World War, written about the post-war world.
這首詩發(fā)表在二戰(zhàn)后，寫的是戰(zhàn)后的世界。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選
It was right after the Second World War.
二戰(zhàn)剛剛結(jié)束。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選

At the end of the second world war America's dreams were collectively ambitious but individually modest.
ECONOMIST: 20th-century America