bellicose

英 [ˈbelɪkəʊs]

美 [ˈbelɪkoʊs]

adj.  好争辩的; 好斗的; 好战的

GRE法律

BNC.34099 / COCA.24633

牛津词典

adj.

• 好争辩的；好斗的；好战的
  having or showing a desire to argue or fight

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 好斗的；好战的；好争吵的
  You usebellicoseto refer to aggressive actions or behaviour that are likely to start an argument or a fight.
  1. He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements.
     他对政府越来越具挑衅性的声明表示担忧。

英英释义

adj

• having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  1. bellicose young officers
  2. a combative impulse
  3. a contentious nature
  Synonym:battlefulcombative

双语例句

• Its ambassador to London warned early last month that the joint exercises may bring the peninsula "to the brink of war", echoing bellicose rhetoric that grabbed global media attention last year.
  上月初，朝鲜驻伦敦大使曾警告称，联合军演可能将朝鲜半岛拖到战争边缘。这与去年引起全球媒体注意的好战言论遥相呼应。
• Bellicose young officers; a combative impulse; a contentious nature.
  好战的年轻军官；好战的冲动；好战的性格。
• Despite occasional bellicose reactions to what it regards as provocations, China still harbours no ambition to be a hegemonic power.
  尽管在认为受到挑衅时，中国偶尔也会表现得好斗，但它并没有称霸的野心。
• It beats bellicose rhetoric, of course, but Taiwan should hardly expect something for nothing.
  当然，这些来往好过恶语相向，但台湾不应期望白拿好处。
• He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements.
  他对政府越来越具挑衅性的声明表示担忧。
• They forgot that they had assulted as far too bellicose the same foreign policy that five years later they denounced as strategic retreat.
  他们忘记了他们曾经猛烈抨击外交政策太好战，而在五年之后，他们又把同样的外交政策斥之为战略撤退。
• The US military is not planning a pre-emptive attack on Iran in spite of an increase in bellicose rhetoric from Washington, according to senior officers.
  美军高官称，尽管华盛顿好战论调有所升级，但美军并未计划对伊朗实施先发制人的打击。
• Following the meeting, bellicose language in the Chinese media calmed down, and Chinese government ships avoided the waters around the islands for several days.
  那次会晤之后，中国媒体中的好战言论有所降温，中国公务船也数日避免进入争议岛屿周围水域。
• The existence of rules in the bullfight makes the bullfight a unique form of art. Bellicose: Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.
  斗牛中规则的出现使斗牛成为一种独一无二的艺术形式。好战的：在行为方式或性格上好战的；好斗的。
• North Korea has struck an unusually bellicose stance with its rich southern neighbour recently.
  朝鲜最近对其富裕的南部邻国采取了异常好斗的姿态。