the Suez Crisis
/ðə ˈsuːɪz kraɪsɪs/
/ðə suːˈez kraɪsɪs/
- a series of events that took place in 1956 after the Egyptian government nationalized the Suez Canal. Britain and France, who had owned shares in the Canal, sent groups of soldiers to attack Egypt. This caused shock throughout the world and many arguments in Britain, where some British people thought that the government was right to use the armed forces and show that Britain was still a strong country, but many others were angry at the use of force. The United Nations and the US were opposed to the British and French action, and after less than two months the soldiers left Egypt. These events made many people realize that European countries such as Britain and France now had much less influence in the world than in the first half of the 20th century, when they still had large empires.
苏伊士危机：1956年埃及政府将苏伊士运河国有化后发生的一系列事件。拥有运河股份的英国和法国派出士兵集团进攻埃及。这在全世界引起了震惊，并在英国引起了许多争论，一些英国人认为政府使用武装部队是正确的，并表明英国仍然是一个强大的国家，但其他许多人对使用武力感到愤怒。联合国和美国反对英国和法国的行动，在不到两个月的时间里，士兵们离开了埃及。这些事件使许多人意识到，英国和法国等欧洲国家现在在世界上的影响力要比20世纪上半叶（当时仍拥有庞大的帝国）低得多。