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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• On numerous occasions, senior regime figures have chastised the country's feisty populist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for stirring up needless trouble with his bellicose rhetoric.
  在许多场合，年老的政治家都会指责走平民路线的坏脾气总统MahmoudAhmadinejad用自己好战的辞藻煽动制造出毫无必要麻烦。
• The chant "you're going home in an ambulance" now sounds less like a bellicose and implausible threat and more like a statement of fact.
  “你将搭乘救护车回家”的球迷歌曲现在听上去更像是陈述事实，而不是好战的和不真实的威胁。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。