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

• 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。
• But the bellicose comments out of the Iranian military have had an unintended consequence at home.
  伊朗军方的好战言论在国内造成了一个意想不到的后果。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。