N-UNCOUNT If you describe a threat, especially a threat of military action, as sabre-rattling, you do not believe that the threat will actually be carried out. 虚张声势
It is too early to say whether the threats are mere sabre-rattling.
现在断言这些威胁是否只是虚张声势还为时过早。
Mr Ivanov was more in tune with Mr Putin's anti-Western sabre-rattling.
伊万诺夫更是与普京反西方的武力炫耀姿态一唱一和。
Pakistan has moved troops from its western tribal regions to the east in response to Indian sabre-rattling.
巴基斯坦已经从其西部部落地区调派军力到达东部，作为对印度军事响动的回应。
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