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An armistice is an agreement to stop fighting. The guns go quiet. The two sides have not necessarily become friends, and they have not necessarily signed the full peace yet.
An armistice停戰協定 is an agreement to stop fighting是一種停止戰鬥的協議。 The guns go quiet槍砲聲會停下來。 The two sides have not necessarily become friends雙方不一定變成朋友，and they have not necessarily signed the full peace yet也不一定已經簽下完整的和約。
A peace treaty tries to end the war for good and settle the terms; an armistice is the “stop now.” A can be short and local; an armistice is usually a bigger, official pause. The word is formal. News and history books use it; in ordinary talk people more often say they stopped the war.
A peace treaty和平條約 tries to end the war for good and settle the terms想徹底結束戰爭、訂下條件；an armistice is the "stop now."armistice則是「先停下來」。A ceasefire停火 can be short and local可以短暫又局部；an armistice is usually a bigger, official pause armistice通常是比較大、正式的暫停。 The word is formal這個字很正式。 News and history books use it新聞和歷史書會用它；in ordinary talk people more often say they stopped the war一般講話比較常說他們停戰了。
The most famous one in English-speaking history is the armistice of 11 November 1918, which ended the fighting in the First World War — remembered as Armistice Day. The pieces mean “weapons” and “make them stand still.” It shares the weapons root with army, but it is not a kind of army, and the “arm” you see is not the arm on your body.
The most famous one in English-speaking history英語世界歷史上最有名的一次，is the armistice of 11 November 1918是1918年11月11日的那次armistice，which ended the fighting in the First World War結束了第一次世界大戰的戰鬥——remembered as Armistice Day後來被紀念為Armistice Day停戰紀念日。 The pieces mean "weapons" and "make them stand still."這個字的組成部分意思是「武器」和「讓它們靜止」。It shares the weapons root with army它跟army共用武器這個字根，but it is not a kind of army但它不是一種army，and the "arm" you see is not the arm on your body而你看到的arm也不是身體上的手臂。
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Armisticename/ˈɑːmɪstɪs/
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The armistice agreement signed between the Allies and Germany on 11 November 1918 to end World War I; (by extension) the end of World War I.
- [W]hat was to be the future policy of the Associated Governments in regard to the renewal of the Armistice: should the Armistice constantly be renewed, with new clauses and new conditions, or were the final naval and military terms to be drawn up immediately and imposed on the enemy.
- The armistice of November 1918 could represent many things: the end of the war, the victory. But for the Carnard [the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné], first and foremost, it represented dissention among the French. […] After the armistice and the emergence of the first difficulties of the peace, many more both on the right and in the center argued that the armistice should have been signed in Berlin—in a word, the armistice of November 11 was premature.
armisticenoun/ˈɑːmɪstɪs/
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA (short) cessation of combat.
- 135. An armistice is the cessation of active hostilities for a period agreed upon between belligerents. It must be agreed upon in writing, and duly ratified by the highest authorities of the contending parties. 136. If an armistice be declared, without conditions, it extends no further than to require a total cessation of hostilities, along the front of both belligerents.
- It has also become routine to interrupt wars in more lasting fashion by imposing armistices. Again, unless directly followed by successful peace negotiations, armistices perpetuate the state of war indefinitely because they shield the weaker side from the consequences of refusing the concessions needed for peace. […] Armistices in themselves are not way stations to peace but rather frozen wars.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA formal agreement, especially between nations, to end combat.
- The Fifth Volume of this Collection makes its appearance at the moſt eventful period of the war—it includes, therefore, matter of the higheſt importance, and contains all the official documents reſpecting the late Negotiation—the war between this country and Spain, the progreſs of the French arms in Italy and Germany—the armiſtices and treaties concluded with the German and Italian powers— […]
- The government of Great-Britain lost no time after the war was known, in making to our cabinet proposals for an armistice. Those proposals were like all propositions between equal states, perfectly reciprocal. They require of us to suspend hostilities only, in consideration of suspending hostilities on their part. They are silent as to impressments—and would any person inquire why? It may be answered, that impressments had never been presented to Great-Britain as in themselves the cause of war— […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。