feud
feud 英 [fju:d] 美 [fjud]
n. 不和；争执；封地;（部落或家族间的）世仇 vi. 长期不和；长期争斗
进行时:feuding 过去式:feuded 过去分词:feuded 第三人称单数:feuds 名词复数:feuds
- A feud is a long-standing fight, often between two families. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare describes the lovers' long-feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues.
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- n. 不和；争执；封地;（部落或家族间的）世仇
- vi. 长期不和；长期争斗
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1. Insults only served to inflame the feud.
侮辱只是起到了加剧长期不和的作用。
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2. The proclamation may be part of a larger feud within the government, and perhaps in the business world as well, over parceling out regulation of the booming industry.
在这个正在急速壮大的产业中制定规则的宣言可能成为政府内部更大的争执的一部分，商业世界可能也是如此。
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3. He did not want any differences of opinion between his heirs to escalate into a family feud.
他不愿意财产继承人之间的意见分歧扩大而升级为家庭不和。
- feud (n.) c. 1300, fede "enmity, hatred, hostility," northern English and Scottish, ultimately (via an unrecorded Old English word or Old French fede, faide "war, raid, hostility, hatred, enmity, feud, (legal) vengeance," which is from Germanic) from Proto-Germanic *faihitho (compare Old High German fehida "contention, quarrel, feud"), noun of state from adjective *faiho- (source also of Old English fæhð "enmity," fah "hostile;" German Fehde "feud;" Old Frisian feithe "enmity"). Perhaps from the same PIE source as foe. Sense of "vendetta" is early 15c. Alteration of spelling in 16c. is unexplained. Meaning "state of hostility between families or clans" is from 1580s.
- feud (v.) 1670s, from feud (n.). Related: Feuded; feuding.
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