China has no plan for military expansion as its development of national defense1 is for its own security, a Navy testing base commander of the People's Liberation Army said last Friday.
中国人民解放军海军测试基地司令员上周五表示,中国没军事扩张的计划,进步国防是出于本国安全考虑。
在上面的报道中,military expansion即军事扩张。Expansion在这里指扩张,比如:economic expansion(经济扩张)。Expansion既能够用来指territorial expansion(领土的扩张),也可以指the expansion of knowledge(常识的扩充)和expansion of a building(建筑物的扩建),金融范围还有credit expansion(信用扩张)政策。
National defense(国防)关系着homeland security(国土安全),因此至关要紧。无论是在military base(军事基地)进行military training(军事练习)和military exercise(军事演习),还是建造aircraft carrier(航空母舰),都是为了守卫国家不受侵犯。