internecine

a. 互相残杀的, 两败俱伤的, 致命的 [法] 互相残杀的, 两败俱伤的, 杀人的

发音

UK /ˌɪntəˈniːsaɪn/
UK /-sɪn/
US /ˌɪntɚˈnɛsin/
US /ˌɪntɚˈnisin/
US /ˌɪntɚˈnɛsən/

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare.

    自相残杀的

    两败俱伤的

    Internecine strife in Gaza claimed its most senior victim yesterday when militants assassinated one of the most hated security chiefs there.

  2. 2.

    Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.

    内部（冲突）的

    The Mongol people were plagued by internecine conflict until Genghis Khan unified them by focusing their aggression outwards on other peoples.

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近义相关 2

bloody internal

词源

Borrowed from Latin internecīnus (“deadly”), from internecium (“a massacre, bloodbath; an eradication”) + -īnus. In Latin, the sememe 'between' was here not expressed by the prefix, it instead either had a somewhat emphatic meaning or meant "down, under", comparable to its use in other Latin terms related to death: see interficiō and intereō. The English current sense is thus a reanalysis of the Latin through English inter-.

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