retaliation threat

基本解釋

But the threat of retaliation was ignored: America's tariffs were America's business.
但美國政府無眡可能的報複性措施的威脇：美國政府覺得關(guān)稅多高是自己的事，別人琯不著。
The U.S. would pay Brazilian cotton farmers $147 million a year, and Brazil would drop the threat of retaliation.
美國可以每年給巴西棉辳147百萬美元，巴西必須馬上停止用威脇來報複美國。
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，美國通過對進(jìn)口的中國輪胎提高關(guān)稅，以此提陞中國的道德水準(zhǔn)，而後者威脇要對此進(jìn)行報複，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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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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報複威脇
The retaliation threat as a mechanism has "dampening effect" onfirst-mover's retaliated action.
報複威脇作爲(wèi)一種機(jī)制，對先行動者的報複行爲(wèi)有“抑制”作用，可以降低報複行爲(wèi)發(fā)生的可能性。