arms race

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Is this the start of an arms race?
這是一場軍備競賽的開始嗎？
Is this an arms race?
這是一場軍備競賽嗎？
A new arms race is on and it could change everything from the way we parent to how we get our celebrity gossip.
一場新的軍備競賽正在進行中，它有可能改變一切——從我們?nèi)绾喂芙毯⒆?，到如何獲取名人小道傳聞。

"I firmly believe it is in Iran's interest not to develop nuclear weapons, because it would trigger a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and be profoundly destabilizing in all sorts of ways."
Clinton said Venezuela's arms acquisitions outpace those of all other South American countries and raise questions about a possible regional arms race.
He spoke through an interpreter. "Not only is our country worried, but we have already expressed time and again our position against an arms race.

To compete, all the combatants have been stockpiling patents, in something of an arms race.
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the situation in which two or more countries try to have more and stronger weapons than each other

An arms race is a situation in which two countries or groups of countries are continually trying to get more and better weapons than each other.