英汉词典

war 基本解释

• n. 战争，斗争；军事，战术；冲突，对抗，竞争
• vi. 打仗，作战；对抗

war 词态变化

war 中文词源

来自PIE*wers,搅拌，混乱，来自PIE*wer的扩大格，转，弯，词源同wrestle,versus。引申词义战争。

war 英文词源

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war: [12] The word war was acquired from werre, the northern dialect form of Old French guerre. This in turn came from prehistoric Germanic *werra ‘strife’, which was formed from the base *wers- (source also of English worse and German wirren ‘confuse’). Warrior [13] is from the Old Northern French derivative werreieor. The diminutive of guerra, the Spanish equivalent of French guerre, gave English guerilla.
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war (n.)

late Old English wyrre, werre "large-scale military conflict," from Old North French werre "war" (Old French guerre "difficulty, dispute; hostility; fight, combat, war;" Modern French guerre), from Frankish *werra, from Proto-Germanic *werz-a- (cognates: Old Saxon werran, Old High German werran, German verwirren "to confuse, perplex"), from PIE *wers- (1) "to confuse, mix up". Cognates suggest the original sense was "to bring into confusion."

Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian guerra also are from Germanic; Romanic peoples turned to Germanic for a "war" word possibly to avoid Latin bellum because its form tended to merge with bello- "beautiful." There was no common Germanic word for "war" at the dawn of historical times. Old English had many poetic words for "war" (wig, guð, heaðo, hild, all common in personal names), but the usual one to translate Latin bellum was gewin "struggle, strife" (related to win (v.)).

First record of war time is late 14c. Warpath (1775) is originally in reference to North American Indians, as are war-whoop (1761), war-paint (1826), and war-dance (1757). War crime first attested 1906 (in Oppenheim's "International Law"). War chest is attested from 1901; now usually figurative. War games translates German Kriegspiel (see kriegspiel).

war (v.)

"to make war on," mid-12c.; see war (n.). Related: Warred; warring.

war 词组搭配

war 英文释义

1. the waging of armed conflict against an enemy;

"thousands of people were killed in the war"

2. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply;

"war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring"

3. an active struggle between competing entities;

"a price war"

"a war of wits"

"diplomatic warfare"

4. a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious;

"the war on poverty"

"the war against crime"

war 同义词解析

battle, war, campaign, struggle, warfare, fight, combat, engagement

这些名词均有"战斗，战争"之意。

battle： 侧重指战争中的一次较全面、时间较长的战斗，也指陆军或海军在某一特定地区进行的战斗，或个人之间的争斗。

war： 是战争的总称，一般指包括多个战役的大规模战争。

campaign： 通常指在一场大的战争中在某一地区进行的一连串有既定目的的军事行动。也可作引申用。

struggle： 指激烈或时间持续长的战斗或奋力斗争。

warfare： 侧重指战争状态或具体的作战方法。

fight： 最普通用词，含义广，指战斗、斗争或打斗。

combat： 泛指军事行动，尤指小规模的战斗，甚至是格斗。

engagement： 指交战，交火。

war 双语例句

1. The minute that the war started, everybody was glued to the television.

战事一起，所有人都盯紧了电视报道。

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2. I use the short-wave radio to get the latest war news.

我用短波收音机收听最新的战事新闻。

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3. The agreement has raised hopes that the war may end soon.

那项协议使人们感到战争有望很快结束。

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4. The intelligence service conceived a grand design to assassinate the War Minister.

情报机构策划了一项暗杀陆军部长的重大计划。

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5. Share prices and trading have been dulled by worries over the war.

股票价格和交易因人们对战争的忧虑而走低。

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war 实用场景例句

the Second World War

第二次世界大战

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the threat of (a) nuclear war

核战争威胁

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to win/lose a/the war

战胜 / 败

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the war between England and Scotland

英格兰和苏格兰之间的战争

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England's war with/against Scotland

英格兰和 / 对苏格兰的战争

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It was the year Britain declared war on Germany.

那是英国对德国宣战的那一年。

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Social and political problems led to the outbreak (= the beginning) of war .

社会和政治问题导致了战争的爆发。

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Where were you living when war broke out ?

战争爆发时你住在哪儿？

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The government does not want to go to war (= start a war) unless all other alternatives have failed.

除非所有其他方法都行不通，否则政府不希望开战。

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How long have they been at war ?

他们交战有多长时间了？

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a war hero

战斗英雄

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(formal)In the Middle Ages England waged war on France.

在中世纪，英格兰向法国发动了战争。

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More troops are being despatched to the war zone .

更多的部队被派往作战地区。

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(formal)the theatre of war (= the area in which fighting takes place)

战区

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the class war

阶级斗争

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a trade war

贸易战

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The government has declared war on drug dealers.

政府已向贩毒分子宣战。

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We seem to be winning the war against crime.

我们在打击犯罪方面似乎已做出成绩。

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You look like you've been in the wars─who gave you that black eye?

看样子你打架受伤了，是谁把你打得鼻青眼肿？

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the political war of words over tax

有关税收问题的政治论战

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He spent part of the war in the National Guard...

战争期间，他在国民警卫队呆过一段时间。

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...matters of war and peace...

战争与和平的问题

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The most important thing is to reach an agreement and to avoid a trade war.

最重要的是达成协议，避免贸易战。

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She has been involved in the war against organised crime.

她参与了打击有组织犯罪的斗争。

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...if the United States is to be successful in its war on drugs.

如果美国想在反毒斗争中获得胜利…

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Ben has also been in the wars. He is still in plaster after breaking a leg.

本也受了伤。他摔断了一条腿，现在还打着石膏。

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Do you think this crisis can be settled without going to war?

你认为这场危机能和平解决吗？

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Animal rights activists have been engaged in an increasingly bitter war of words with many of the nation's zoos.

动物权利保护者和该国多家动物园展开了越来越激烈的论战。

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