词汇 | secret weapon |
词源 | secret weapon. A weapon, usually one of great destructive force, often nuclear or biochemical, that a government has clas- sified as secret, sometimes even denying its existence. The term was coined by British suspense and spy novelist Eric Ambler in The Dark Frontier (1936). |
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