retaliation threat

基本解釋

But the threat of retaliation was ignored: America's tariffs were America's business.
但美國(guó)政府無(wú)視可能的報(bào)復(fù)性措施的威脅：美國(guó)政府覺(jué)得關(guān)稅多高是自己的事，別人管不著。
The U.S. would pay Brazilian cotton farmers $147 million a year, and Brazil would drop the threat of retaliation.
美國(guó)可以每年給巴西棉農(nóng)147百萬(wàn)美元，巴西必須馬上停止用威脅來(lái)報(bào)復(fù)美國(guó)。
When, in September 2009, America handed them a free pass to the moral high ground by imposing tariffs on tyre imports, they risked worsening the damage with a threat of retaliation.
2009年9月，美國(guó)通過(guò)對(duì)進(jìn)口的中國(guó)輪胎提高關(guān)稅，以此提升中國(guó)的道德水準(zhǔn)，而后者威脅要對(duì)此進(jìn)行報(bào)復(fù)，使已造成的損失有可能進(jìn)一步擴(kuò)大

Conversely, the winner can afford to get really dominant, as the threat of retaliation has receded.
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But the CIA attack has already inspired at least one threat of retaliation.
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America's decision to impose steel safeguards has already unleashed safeguard actions in other countries, along with the threat of retaliation.
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報(bào)復(fù)威脅
The retaliation threat as a mechanism has "dampening effect" onfirst-mover's retaliated action.
報(bào)復(fù)威脅作為一種機(jī)制，對(duì)先行動(dòng)者的報(bào)復(fù)行為有“抑制”作用，可以降低報(bào)復(fù)行為發(fā)生的可能性。