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Détente is a word we kept from French, spelling and all. It means a time when two sides who have been tense — usually countries — start to that tightness. They may talk more, threaten less, sign smaller deals. It is not the same as peace, and it is not a full friendship; the old problems are often still there. The famous use is the 1970s easing between the United States and the Soviet Union, but people also use it for any cooling of a freeze between rivals. Newspapers sometimes stretch it to office or a family row; that is looser than the core, country-to-country sense. Though actually, even then the picture still holds: the strain eases, nobody has become close. In English we usually keep a French-ish sound, a bit like “day-tahnt.”
低盪（兩國緊張關係的緩和；中國大陸較常說「緩和」）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
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。
détentenoun/deɪˈtɑːnt/
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governmentpoliticsRelaxing of tension, especially between countries; (countable) an instance of this.
- They had a vague feeling that after the dislocations and the violence which the Impressionists inflicted on the picturesque, the eyes of their contemporaries necessarily needed a little rest. Instinct and reflection were no less ready to warn them that the last hours were at hand of one of those reactions, or, to speak more accurately, those détentes, which are so frequent in the history of art.
- Although the Pope [Leo XIII]'s decision was in favour of Spain, it brought about quite a détente between Berlin and Rome.
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。