| 单词 | war |
| 释义 | war (wɔːʳ ) Word forms: wars 1. variable noun A2 A war is a period of fighting or conflict between countries or states. He spent part of the war in the National Guard. ...matters of war and peace. They've been at war for the last fifteen years. Synonyms: conflict, drive, attack, fighting 2. variable noun War is intense economic competition between countries or organizations. The most important thing is to reach an agreement and to avoid a trade war. 3. variable noun If you make war on someone or something that you are opposed to, you do things to stop them succeeding. She has been involved in the war against organised crime. [+ against] ...if the United States is to be successful in its war on corruption. [+ on] 4. See also civil war, Cold War, council of war, warring 5. be in the wars phrase [VERB inflects] If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident. [informal] Ben has also been in the wars. He is still in plaster after breaking a leg. 6. go to war phrase B1 If a country goes to war, it starts fighting a war. Do you think this crisis can be settled without going to war? 7. war of words phrase If two people, countries, or organizations have a war of words, they criticize each other because they strongly disagree about something. [journalism] Animal rights activists have been engaged in a bitter war of words with zoos. [+ with] 8. to lose the battle but win the war phrase If you say that someone has lost the battle, but won the war, you mean that although they have been defeated in a small conflict they have won a larger, more important one of which it was a part. If you say that someone has won the battle but lost the war, you mean that they have won the small conflict but lost the larger one. The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war. Quotations: War is nothing but the continuation of politics by other meansOn War Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshedOn Protracted War There was never a good war, or a bad peace War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor readingThe Dynasts He that makes a good war makes a good peaceOutlandish Proverbs O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?Necessary Secrets For what can war but endless war still breed?Sonnet, On the Lord General Fairfax Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry, The subject of it is War, and the Pity of War. The Poetry is in the PityPoems (preface) As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popularThe Critic as Artist In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men War is like love, it always finds a wayMother Courage and Her Children It is easier to make war than to make peace During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every manLeviathan History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happenspeech to the Conservative Party Conference Let slip the dogs of warJulius Caesar War is the trade of kingsKing Arthur The quickest way of ending a war is to lose itShooting an Elephant Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come`The People, Yes' Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed Constitution of UNESCO The next war will be fought with atom bombs and the one after that with spears War will cease when men refuse to fight pacifist slogan After each war there is a little less democracy to saveOnce Around the Sun What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself againThe Fall of America In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any moreMen Without Women All is fair in love and war Idioms: someone has won the battle, but lost the war said to mean that in a struggle, someone has gained one small thing but lost something that is much more important The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a war of nerves or a battle of nerves a situation in which two opposing people or groups are trying to weaken each other psychologically, for example by frightening each other, in order to get what they want without taking any direct action In the war of nerves between the two sides, it is becoming more and more difficult to separate their real intentions from their propaganda tactics. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers all's fair in love and war said to mean that under difficult circumstances any kind of behaviour is acceptable All is fair in love and war and I now fully appreciate how betrayal can lead to so much resentment. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers a war of words [journalism] a situation in which two people or groups of people argue or criticize each other because they strongly disagree about a particular issue A war of words has blown up over who is to blame for a confrontation between police and fans outside the venue. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: bitter war Will a bitter war be waged between them? The Sun A bitter war of words has since broken out between the two camps. Times, Sunday Times The increasingly bitter war of words concerns just one element of the saga. Times, Sunday Times A bitter war of words has broken out over the dates. Times,Sunday Times The flame will burn for 74 days — marking each day of the bitter war. The Sun He had created a school from the chaos of war. Times, Sunday Times It saw electricity revolutionize human history and watched the world’s greatest powers descend into the chaos of war twice over. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What could be the relevance of radical aesthetics to world that had been swept into the chaos of war? Times, Sunday Times They think it will be less risky to be in their house when the chaos of war begins. Globe and Mail In the chaos of war, however, she quickly assumed a greater role. Times, Sunday Times The direct and indirect consequences of continuing war are stark. Times, Sunday Times Although testing continued, the aircraft did not enter production due to the continuing war effort. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Due to the continuing war, medical aid was difficult to obtain. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The continuing war resulted in materials shortages. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, the herring fisheries were in decline and the town was taxed heavily to pay for continuing wars. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This by no means rules out a conventional war between them. Times, Sunday Times We maintain our stock of expensive ships, aircraft and tanks so that we can protect ourselves in the event of a state-on-state conventional war. Times, Sunday Times Even in a conventional war, that would be a daunting environment. Globe and Mail Even success would probably provoke a conventional war. Times, Sunday Times Conventional war, even at its fastest, was fought over days and weeks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Discontent with elite corruption has to be linked with growing unease about a costly war. Times, Sunday Times What had begun as a minor punitive expedition had turned into a long, bitter and costly war. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The new administration pushed for an end to the costly war. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Member states can become embroiled in costly wars benefiting neither the direct victim nor the aggressor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By autumn 1549, his costly wars had lost momentum, the crown faced financial ruin, and riots and rebellions had broken out around the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By the 20th century, governments all over the world were engaged in an endless war on noisy people and things. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The world's plummeting to desolation, endless war, financial meltdown. Times, Sunday Times But in certain disciplines, such as cycling and athletics, we know we are engaged in an endless war against cheats. Times, Sunday Times They fear a future of endless war. Globe and Mail He states that he simply wishes to start an endless war. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A fierce war of words raged in the papers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This started a fierce war or words. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The alliance had to hurl themselves into an even fiercer war after just a brief rest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Almost all say they are fleeing war or persecution. Times, Sunday Times (2014) In addition to economic migration there are those fleeing war and persecution or seeking asylum. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Can we define anyone fleeing war or persecution as an'economic' refugee? Times, Sunday Times (2016) It will allow those fleeing war to claim asylum without risking their lives by using people traffickers to reach Europe. The Sun (2016) Rates of conversion are high because inmates have the luxury of time to persuade others to join a global war 'against the system'. Times, Sunday Times It was a global war, with global ramifications. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are battlefields in a global war that recognises no frontiers. Times, Sunday Times They won the battle but playing in this style they will never win rugby's global war. Times, Sunday Times Analogies have been drawn between the economic downturn and a global war. Times, Sunday Times But it seems important to pause for a moment before welcoming this prospect of war with no 'butcher's bill' among our own forces. Times, Sunday Times But the prospect of war appears to be breeding in this land of tolerance an unhealthy dose of intolerance for contrary viewpoints. Globe and Mail The would-be emperor escaped the prospect of war with his father by hastily departing the camp with a few close followers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He enlisted at the start of the war. Times, Sunday Times He left before completing his studies to volunteer for the navy at the start of the war. Times, Sunday Times Rationing was introduced in 1940, a year after the start of the war. The Sun He'd been hiding in the house since the start of the war. Smithsonian He escaped internment at the start of the war because he was designing vital air raid shelters. The Sun They did this every time the threat of war loomed, which may well have contributed to their losing streak. Times, Sunday Times The threat of war will drive down growth and investment this year. Times,Sunday Times With the threat of war imminent, some of the players resolved to resume it just as soon as the conflict was over. Times, Sunday Times The threat of war pushes investors into safe assets such as gold and rows between oil-producing nations drives up oil prices. Times, Sunday Times The oil price would not be more than $90 a barrel if there were no shortage and no threat of war. Times, Sunday Times He was a toolmaker and therefore had a ' reserved occupation,' his skills being of value to the war effort. The Sun (2014) Most carried on, adapting their purposes to the war effort in many ways. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) The manufacturers have agreed to amalgamate their brand names for the duration in the interest of the Allied war effort. HUMAN VOICES (2003) But he turned out to race in many athletics meetings that raised funds for the war effort. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The Times ran regular columns of advice on how civilians could aid the war effort. Times, Sunday Times (2008) He ordered that moats be deepened and rooms restored but war preparations removed much of the necessary manpower. Times, Sunday Times Moreover, today's wars and war preparations consume massive amounts of resources that are urgently needed to address human needs. Globe and Mail He quickly mobilized the armed forces and made war preparations well in advance. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Peace can not be wonbut profits canby spending ever-increasing billions of the people's money in war preparations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was responsible for mobilization and some war preparations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But she has refused the offer of cosmetic surgery, describing it as her 'war wound and badge of honour'. The Sun And like an old war wound, it may occasionally throb or tingle. Times, Sunday Times He also experienced a much discussed and deeply painful trepanning for an old war wound. Times, Sunday Times When his flying career was over he sought treatment for a war wound in one ankle that he had been self-treating. Times, Sunday Times A war wound left him with a permanent limp. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 战争 Japanese: 戦争 |
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