释义 |
civil warˌcivil ˈwar noun [countable, uncountable] - George Orwell wrote of the civil war within a civil war, for he was present when this conflict erupted in Barcelona.
- In 323-4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius, and Constantine was at last sole ruler.
- In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought, security is shaky.
- It launched the 25-year-long civil war that resumed this month.
- The new king's first task will be to prevent the desperately poor country of 23m from sliding into civil war.
- The rhetoric of rights, which is engendered by this question, is a recipe for class war, and civil war.
- Their representatives are helping thousands of orphaned children and displaced families escape from the tyranny of civil war.
- To the King and most of his advisers the verdict was clear and, short of risking civil war, irresistible.
a war in which opposing groups of people from the same country fight each other in order to gain political control: the Spanish Civil War |