war
n. 战争, 战争状态, 战术, 军事, 冲突, 斗争, 竞争 vi. 进行战争, 作战, 打仗, 战斗 a. 战争的, 战时用的
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战争，斗争；军事，战术；冲突，对抗，竞争
when there is fighting between two or more countries or between opposing groups within a country, involving large numbers of soldiers and weapons
打仗，作战；对抗
释义与例句
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1.
Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.
战争
仗
不可数 可数holy war; just war; civil war
War is indeed a fearful thing and the more I see it the more dreadful it appears.
You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our Country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out... You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war.
I've been where you are now and I know just how you feel. It's entirely natural that there should beat in the breast of every one of you a hope and desire that some day you can use the skill you have acquired here. Suppress it! You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen thousands of men lying on the ground, their dead faces looking up at the skies. I tell you, war is hell!
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Edward Wilson, the inventor of the field of sociobiology, once wrote that "war is embedded in our very nature". This is a belief commonly held not just by sociobiologists but also by anthropologists and other students of human behaviour. They base it not only on the propensity of modern man to go to war with his neighbours (and, indeed, with people halfway around the world, given the chance) but also on observations of the way those who still live a pre-agricultural "hunter-gatherer" life behave... Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine... One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries... Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
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A particular conflict of this kind.
可数 不可数A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.
a war of succession... a war of attrition... the Cold War... World War III...
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3.
Any protracted conflict, particularly
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Any protracted conflict, particularly
A sustained campaign against a social problem, idea, set of values, etc.
斗争
挑战
美国 可数 不可数 引申义 -
5.
Any protracted conflict, particularly
A protracted instance of fierce competition in trade.
可数 不可数 商务 引申义price wars... Cola Wars... format wars...
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Any protracted conflict, particularly
A prolonged conflict between two groups of organized criminals, usually over organizational or territorial control.
可数 不可数 引申义turf war... gang war... Castellammarese War...
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An assembly of weapons; instruments of war.
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Armed forces.
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Any of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.
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Any protracted conflict, particularly
An argument between two or more people with opposing opinions on a topic or issue.
可数 不可数 引申义flame war... edit war...
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11.
Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.
可数 不可数Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle.
the Great Emu War... the Global War on Terrorism...
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1.
To carry on, as a contest; to wage.
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To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).
作战
交兵
开战
不及物And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males
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From Middle English werre, from Late Old English werre /wyrre (“armed conflict”), from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French guerre /werre (compare modern French guerre), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Gradually displaced native Old English beadu, hild, ġewinn, orleġe, wīġ, and many others as the general term for "war" during the Middle English period. Related to Old High German werra (“confusion, strife, quarrel”) and German verwirren (“to confuse”), but not to Wehr (“defense”). Also related to Old Saxon werran (“to confuse, perplex”), Dutch war (“confusion, disarray”), West Frisian war (“confusion”), Old English wyrsa, wiersa (“worse”), Old Norse verri (“worse, orig. confounded, mixed up”), Italian guerra (“war”). There may be a connection with worse and wurst.
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