1·So it should be no surprise that Cold War weapons technology can be repurposed for peacetime use.
所以，冷战时期的武器技术转用于和平时期，我们不必大惊小怪。
2·Such a war could result in the use of chemical and biological weapons.
这样一场战争可能导致生化武器的使用。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Nuclear weapons seem to violate the just war principle of proportionality.
核武器似乎违背了罚当其罪的正义战争原则。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4·The employees of Japanese-based Fujita construction company were in China concerning a project to dispose of chemical weapons abandoned by Japanese military forces after World War Two.
这些日本人是日本藤田建设工程公司的职员，在中国为一个处理日军在二战后遗弃在中国的化学武器项目而工作。
5·During the Cold War, both sides agreed that some weapons were so destructive they should never be used.
冷战期间，双方一致认为一些武器如此具有破坏性，应该永远禁用。
6·The chemicals are all that is left from the Cold War when Dzerzhinsk functioned as principal production site for chemical weapons.
这些化学药品都是冷战时期的残留品，当时斯捷尔任斯克是化学武器的主要生产地。
7·Let's not focus on the current difficulties there. And also not on the questionable justification for the war, those weapons of mass destruction that somehow have never turned up.
请不要把眼光集中在眼下那里的困难，也不要集中在这场战争令人怀疑的正当性上，那些大规模杀伤性武器不知怎的从来就没露过面。
8·After a late entry into the American Civil War, delayed by suspicions of newfangled weapons among some senior soldiers, the Gatling gun was put to use at home and abroad.
加特林机枪在美国内战晚期被用于了战场，这场战争由于某些高级官员对新式武器忧心忡忡而被拖延，之后加特林机枪便在国内与国外得到广泛使用。
9·Almost everyone in the country-anyone who owned property anyway-was legally required to keep weapons in their house so that in times of war, the king could call on them to fight.
几乎国内每个人——每个拥有财产的人——都受到法律要求，在家中备有武器，一旦发生战争，立即能够响应国王的号召参战。
10·Most importantly, they became controllable, which suddenly made them useful both as weapons of war and, even more vitally, as our means of accessing outer space.
火箭变得更大也更有破坏性。重要的是，它更高的可控性使之成为了战争中有效的武器，而且，这也是探索外太空的基石。