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Bellicose means behaving in a way that seems likely to start a fight or an argument — looking for trouble, or talking as if a fight would be welcome. It is a formal word. Newspapers use it for leaders, countries, and speeches that sound ready for war, or at least for a hard clash. A person can be bellicose too, but you would not use it for a child grabbing a toy; the word is too heavy and too grown-up. Though actually, writers sometimes use it with a dry smile for someone who is always spoiling for an argument, not only for armies. Angry is smaller and more everyday. Bellicose is “this person or this talk has fight in it.” It has nothing to do with bells that ring.
好戰的、殺氣騰騰的（書面；多用來形容言論、領袖、國家）
組成From Middle English bellicose, from Latin bellicosus: bellum, “war,” plus a suffix that means “full of.” So: full of war. Not related to English bell, the metal thing that rings.
同家族的字
- belligerentsame Latin bellum, “war”
- rebelLatin re- + bellum, “fight back”
- rebellionthe same war root as rebel
- antebellumLatin ante + bellum, “before the war”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bellicoseadj/ˈbɛlɪkoʊs/
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Warlike or combative in nature; aggressively hostile.
- You don't have to be so bellicose, and we can work out a peaceful solution.
- CHINA sent both bellicose and conciliatory signals yesterday as tension continued in the Taiwan Strait over Chinese military exercises and the deployment of US naval battle groups.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。