bellicose
英 [ˈbelɪkəʊs]
美 [ˈbelɪkoʊs]
adj. 好争辩的; 好斗的; 好战的
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.- 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。
- He expressed alarm about the government's increasingly bellicose statements.
英英释义
adj
- having or showing a ready disposition to fight
- bellicose young officers
- a combative impulse
- a contentious nature
双语例句
- Faber had imagined them to be young, fit, aggressive and bellicose as well as clever.
在费伯的想象中,他们都是年富力强,逞能好斗,聪明伶俐的人。 - His life, only to find their militant existent meaning, it's because he bellicose.
他的一生好战,只为找寻自己存在的意义,正是因为他好战。 - 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。 - 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。 - Eliminating him may be hard; with the backing of his bellicose tribe, in remote terrain, Mr Mehsud is a more formidable militant than those in Swat.
消灭马哈苏德也许会很困难,有其好战部族在边远地区的支持,马哈苏德比那些斯瓦特武装分子更难对付。 - 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。 - I remind myself that the war in Iraq started with bellicose posturing and photographs.
我提醒自己,伊拉克战争始于好斗的姿态和照片。 - All of this was a world away from George W Bush, who was unable to address Muslims in a tone that was not bellicose or patronising.
所有这些都与小布什有天壤之别,小布什是用好战的或者居高临下的语气对穆斯林讲话。 - 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。