bellicose
bellicose 英 [ˈbelɪkəʊs] 美 [ˈbelɪkoʊs]
adj. 好战的；好斗的
- If you walk into a high school where you know no one, find the toughest looking girl in the halls and tell her she's ugly, them's fighting words. Or bellicose ones. Bellicose means eager for war.
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- adj. 好战的；好斗的
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1. They hold that, once entrenched, only Lincoln's bellicose policy could have eradicated it.
他们相信一旦确立，只有林肯的好战政策才能彻底摧毁它。
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2. Once in office, will Obama prove that his bellicose threats against Iran and Pakistan were just words spoken to lure in a certain category of voter during the election?
奥巴马一旦就职，他是否会证实他在竞选中针对伊朗和巴基斯坦的好战威胁只是吸引某些选民选票的一种手段？
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3. European integration has already transformed most of a famously bellicose continent into a stable zone of peace.
欧洲整合已经基本上把一个以好战出名的大陆转化为一个和平稳定的地区了。
- bellicose (adj.) early 15c., "inclined to fighting," from Latin bellicosus "warlike, valorous, given to fighting," from bellicus "of war," from bellum "war" (Old Latin duellum, dvellum), which is of uncertain origin.
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