- 1打架、爭執、小衝突（口語）
A dust-up is a fight — sometimes with fists, sometimes with angry words. It is informal. You hear it more in British English than in American English: a dust-up outside a pub, a dust-up between neighbours, a political dust-up on television. It usually sounds like a short clash, not a long war. Though actually, nobody is talking about cleaning. The picture is of people kicking up dust as they scuffle. The noun was cut from the verb dust up, meaning to fight. Teachers and news readers may prefer fight, row, or clash; dust-up has a slightly jaunty, newspaper flavour, as if the writer is not too shocked.
這個字指打架，有時是動手，有時只是激烈的口角，屬於口語用語。英式英語比美式英語更常用，例如「a dust-up outside a pub」，指酒吧外的衝突；也可以是鄰居之間的爭執，或電視上的政治爭吵。通常聽起來像一場短暫的衝突，不像長期戰爭。
這跟打掃無關，畫面是人們互相推擠時揚起灰塵。它是從一個動詞片語截短出來的名詞，原本也是打架的意思。老師或正式寫作可能偏好打架、爭吵或衝突這類說法；這個字帶著報紙的輕鬆口吻，好像寫的人並不太震驚。
From the word’s history
From the phrase dust up.
來自片語 dust up。
組成A noun cut from the phrasal verb dust up (to fight). Dust here is the dirt that flies up in a scuffle, not household cleaning.
同家族的字
- dustthe dust that gets kicked up in a fight — the picture behind the phrase
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- dustup
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。