sabre-rattling; smell powder; the glint and flash of daggers and swords ? 人們從他們 “和平”帷幕后面看到的，正是他們竭力爭奪歐洲的～。What one saw behind the veil of “peace”put up by them was the sabre-rattling of their fierce scramble in Europe.
刀光劍影dāo ɡuānɡ jiàn yǐnɡ
形容激烈的廝殺場面或殺機(jī)。the glint and the flash of cold steel, smell powder, at the point of the sword, sabre-rattling, flashing with knives and swords