喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture war as full-scale armed fighting between two sides — soldiers, weapons, sustained battle, each side trying to defeat the other. From this literal clash, the word stretches to any all-out, prolonged struggle to beat an opponent or a problem.

可以想成 war 的核心畫面比較像兩方「全面開打」——士兵、武器、持續的戰鬥，雙方都想把對方打垮。從這個真刀真槍的衝…更多收起可以想成 war 的核心畫面比較像兩方「全面開打」——士兵、武器、持續的戰鬥，雙方都想把對方打垮。從這個真刀真槍的衝突出發，這個字再延伸到任何「拼盡全力、長期纏鬥、非把對手或問題壓下去不可」的局面。

原始詞典資料23 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。

Warname

  • 1

    obsoletePreceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.

    • Through much of the War, Hitler carried his painter's kit, did water colors of War-ruined buildings.
  • 2

    informalPreceded by the: designating a particularly notable war.

  • 3

    The personification of war, often depicted in armour and riding a red horse; the red rider.

  • 4

    A city in West Virginia, United States.

warnoun/wɔː/

  • 1

    Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always involving active engagement of military forces.

    • holy war; just war; civil war
    • Come on, let vs deale wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to passe that when there falleth out any warre, they ioyne also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and so get them vp out of the land.
  • 2

    A particular conflict of this kind.

    • All human tribes glad token see In the close of the wars of Grant and Lee.
    • A second challenge will be to implement, with our allies, a plan of stability in the Balkans, so that the region's bitter ethnic problems can no longer be exploited by dictators and Americans do not have to cross the Atlantic again to fight in another war.
  • 3

    Protracted armed conflict against irregular forces, particularly groups considered terrorists.

    • Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.
    • ...These wars are not going away. This is at least a generational struggle.
  • 4

    Any protracted conflict, particularly

    • the War on Poverty... the War on Drugs... the War on Christmas...
  • 5

    Any protracted conflict, particularly

    • The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party... Ask all our millions, north and south, whether they would vote now (were such a thing possible) to have our war for the Union expunged from history... and probably hardly a handful of eccentrics would say yes. Those ancestors, those efforts, those memories and legends, ar the most ideal part of what we now own together, a sacred spiritual possession worth more than all the blood poured out. Yet ask those same people whether they would be willing, in cold blood, to start another civil war now to gain another similar possession, and not one man or woman would vote for the proposition.
  • 6

    businessAny protracted conflict, particularly

    • price wars... Cola Wars... format wars...
  • 7

    Any protracted conflict, particularly

    • turf war... gang war... Castellammarese War...
  • 8

    Any protracted conflict, particularly

    • flame war... edit war...
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteAn assembly of weapons; instruments of war.

    • The God of Love himſelf inhabits there, With all his rage, and dread, and grief, and care, His complement of ſtores, and total war...
  • 10

    obsoleteArmed forces.

    • On thir imbattelld ranks the Waves return, And overwhelm thir Warr
  • 11

    card-gamesgamesAny of a family of card games where all cards are dealt at the beginning of play and players attempt to capture them all, typically involving no skill and only serving to kill time.

    • We played crazy eights, war, fifty-two card pickup. Rudy flipped the whole deck across the table at me and the cards sailed to the floor, kings, queens, deuces.

warverb/wɔː/

  • 1

    To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).

    • ...to war the Scot, and borders to defend...
    • And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slew all the males
  • 2

    To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

    • […], that thou by them mighteſt warre a good warfare,[…].
    • By God, that man does war honour.

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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。