Peace Corps

英 [piːs kɔː(r)]

美 [piːs kɔːr]

n.  和平队， 和平工作团 (美国机构，送美国青年去其他国家义务工作以建立国际友谊)

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牛津词典

noun

• 和平队， 和平工作团 （美国机构，送美国青年去其他国家义务工作以建立国际友谊）
  a US organization that sends young Americans to work in other countries without pay in order to create international friendship

柯林斯词典

• 和平队（美国派往发展中国家协助开展各类项目的年轻人组织）
  The Peace Corpsis an American organization that sends young people to help with projects in developing countries.

双语例句

• President John F.Kennedy created the Peace Corps in1961.
  约翰·肯尼迪总统1961年创建了和平队。
• And they have tools unimagined when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in the late1960s.
  他们拥有我在1960年代后期做志愿者时所无法想象的工具。
• Many Peace Corps volunteers work on HIV education initiatives during their service.
  许多和平队志愿者都在服务期间参加预防艾滋病教育宣传行动计划。
• This towering task that is the Peace Corps still calls us to action.
  和平队这一宏图大业仍然召唤着我们。
• Peace Corps volunteers left Sierra Leone in nineteen ninety-four because of civil war.
  和平队志愿者1994年由于内战离开了塞拉利昂。
• My wife and I met while we were serving in the Peace Corps.
  我的妻子和我是在国际维和部队里服役时认识的。
• I finally get to meet the mysterious queen of the peace corps.
  我终于能见到我们那位神秘的和平志愿队的女王了。
• Last summer, Peace Corps volunteers in Namibia created a health education program geared toward teens and young adults.
  去年夏天，在纳米比亚的和平队志愿者创立了一个针对青少年的健康教育计划。
• Within months of taking office in1961, Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.
  1961年肯尼迪就任总统几个月后，签署了一项建立和平队的行政命令。
• A grandiose proposal to establish a Chinese Peace Corps was floated, too.
  甚至还有人提出了创建中国和平队这一宏伟计划。