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 announcement came after bellicose North Korean rhetoric earlier in the day, which threatened military action against South Korea for violating a disputed maritime border.
  朝鲜发表上述声明之前，曾在昨日早些时候发表了好战言论，扬言要对韩国侵犯一条有争议的海上边界之举采取军事行动。
• 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。
• The next administration should not be distracted by the idea of a new international organisation to remake the world, nor another bellicose crusade for "Western values" with its inevitable delineation of new enemies.
  下一届美国政府不应被建立新国际机构重塑世界格局的一想法分散了注意力，也不应被另一场宣扬“西方价值观”的圣战所困扰这种圣战必然会树立新的敌人。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。