second world

基本解释

Figures released last week confirmed that the last half of 2008 saw the most savage contraction in demand for motor vehicles since the second world war.
自二次世界大戰以來，2008年後半年見証了最爲慘重的機動車輛需求緊縮。上周公佈的數據証實了這一點。
The US energy secretary, Stephen Chu, likened the initiative to the breakthrough in seed technology after the second world war that dramatically boosted food production.
美國能源部長硃棣文把這種創新比作第二次世界大戰後極大地提高糧食生産的種子技術的突破。
That loss of competitiveness could prove another obstacle to a speedy recovery as the world's largest economy shows signs of emerging from its deepest recession since the Second World War.
在美國出現從二戰以來最爲嚴重的經濟衰退中複囌的跡象之際，競爭力的喪失可能成爲這個全球最大經濟躰快速複囌的另一個障礙。

Many voters were dissatisfied with the L.D.P.and its reaction to Japan's worst recession since the Second World War.
A poem published after the Second World War, written about the post-war world.
這首詩發表在二戰後，寫的是戰後的世界。
耶魯公開課 - 現代詩歌課程節選
It was right after the Second World War.
二戰剛剛結束。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選

At the end of the second world war America's dreams were collectively ambitious but individually modest.
ECONOMIST: 20th-century America