English Dictionary

axis of evil

名詞

A group of states accused by George W. Bush of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

日本語の意味

ジョージ・W・ブッシュ大統領がテロ支援や大量破壊兵器の追求に関与していると非難した国々―具体的にはイラン、イラク、北朝鮮―を指す表現

Historians continue to debate the impact of the phrase axis of evil on U.S. foreign policy in the early 2000s.

歴史家たちは、『悪の枢軸』と呼ばれた、ジョージ・W・ブッシュ大統領がテロ支援と大量破壊兵器の追求を理由に名指しした国家群（当初はイラン、イラク、北朝鮮）が2000年代初頭の米国外交に与えた影響について今も議論を続けている。

意味（1）

A group of states accused by George W. Bush of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

I discussed Iraq with Gerhard during his visit to the White House on January 31, 2002. In my State of the Union address two days earlier, I had outlined the threats posed by Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world,” I said. The media seized on the phrase “axis of evil.” They took the line to mean that the three countries had formed an alliance. That missed the point. The axis I referred to was the link between the governments that pursued WMD and the terrorists who could use those weapons. There was a larger point in the speech that no one could miss: I was serious about dealing with Iraq.

意味（2）

(astrophysics, cosmology) An anomaly in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background as the result of a preferential axis which may have shaped the development of the universe, sometimes abbreviated AOE.

axes of evil （ plural ）