after-war, satellite, sputnik, Sputnik crisis

Every war has its after-war，伊拉克與阿富汗兩場戰爭留下來的，就是這約五十萬受苦、不值得紀念，苦痛無法被哀悼的戰士。

'Radiance of Tomorrow'

By ISHMAEL BEAH
Reviewed by SARA CORBETT

In Ishmael Beah's novel, a Sierra Leone village adapting to life after war faces a new invasion, this time from a mining company.


也許英國「脫歐」的創傷可能會帶來一個「史普尼克危機」，促使政界領袖團結一致推動高速包容性增長的共同願景，並就避免經濟衰退和金融動盪的舉措達成協議。

The Sputnik Crisis was a period of public fear and anxiety about the perceived technological gap between the United States and Soviet Union caused by the launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite.

Sputnik crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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sputnik

Pronunciation: /ˈspʊtnɪk/  

 /ˈspʌtnɪk/ 

NOUN

Each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on 4 October1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

Example sentences

Origin

Russian, literally 'fellow-traveller'.

More

• satellite from mid 16th century:
  In 1611 the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, writing in Latin, gave the name satellites to the moons of Jupiter, which Galileo had recently discovered. An English publication referred to ‘a Satellite of Jupiter’ in 1665. In Latin satelles, of which satellites is the plural, meant ‘an attendant or guard’, a use occasionally found in English from the mid 16th century, usually with overtones of subservience or fawning attentiveness. Until the 1930s the only satellites in space were natural bodies such as planets and moons, but in 1936 the word was first applied to a man-made object (at that point just a theoretical one) put into orbit around the earth. The first artificial satellite to be launched was the Russian Sputnik 1, in 1957, and in 1962 the Telstar satellite relayed the first satellite television signal.Sputnik means ‘fellow traveller’ in Russian, while Telstar got its name because it was built by Bell Telephone Laboratories and used for telecommunications.

after-war

Pronunciation: /ˈɑːftəˌwɔː/  /ˈaftəˌwɔː/ 

NOUN

1A later or subsequent war. Now rare .

2The period following a war.

ADJECTIVE

Following a war; of, relating to, or characteristic of the period following a war. Now chiefly with reference to the wars of 1914–18 and 1939–45.

Origin

Early 17th century; earliest use found in Henry Ainsworth (1569–1622), separatist minister and religious controversialist. From after- + war.