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

• 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。
• 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。
• Indeed, in marked contrast to the run-up to the Iraq war, the British and the French are more bellicose than the Americans.
  事实上，与伊拉克战争前夕形成鲜明对比的是，英国人和法国人此次摆出了比美国人更好斗的姿态。
• The South has been safer than in decades. Bellicose words are often followed by calmer ones.
  多年来，南苏丹是一个比较安全的地方，好战宣言说出之后通常都会得到及时的补救。
• 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。
• On the North Korean menace, meanwhile, Mr Obama is conforming to a 20-year pattern of US deference to China which has enabled a bellicose, nuclear Pyongyang.
  此外，在朝鲜威胁这点上，奥巴马正在遵循顺从中国这个已持续了20年的模式，而正是这种模式造就了一个好战的、拥有核武器的平壤。
• These four super powers came to terms of trade and co-existed more or less peacefully, despite some grim tensions between them regarding their bellicose past.
  尽管以前的战争导致四个之间超级大国至今摩擦不断，他们达成了贸易协议，并保证了一定的和平。
• His bellicose disposition alienated his friend.
  他生性好斗，他的朋友们都疏远了他。
• 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。
• 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。