Battle
['bæt(ə)l] or ['bætl]
解释:
(noun.) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; 'Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga'; 'he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement'.
(verb.) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; 'The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq'; 'We must combat the prejudices against other races'; 'they battled over the budget'.
乔治娜手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Fertile. See Battel, a.
(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
校对:罗尼
同义词及近义词：
n. Combat, engagement, action, conflict, contest, fight, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush, affair.
科迪莉亚整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Fight, conflict, contest, combat, engagement, encounter, action
ANT:Peace, truce, pacification, arbitrament, council, mediation
整理:诺拉
解释:
adj. (dial.) nourishing.—v.t. (obs.) to feed.
n. a contest between opposing armies: a fight or encounter: (arch.) a body of troops in battle array esp. in phrase 'main battle.'—v.i. to contend in fight: to maintain champion (with against with).—ns. Bat′tle-axe -ax a kind of axe once used in battle; Bat′tle-cry a war-shout; Bat′tlefield the place on which a battle is fought; Bat′tle-piece a passage or a painting describing a battle.—adj. Bat′tle-scarred scarred in battle.—ns. Bat′tleship a war-ship of the first class; Pitched′-bat′tle a battle fought on chosen ground.—Battle royal a general m阬閑—Half the battle said of anything which ensures success.—Line of battle troops in array for battle; Line-of-battle ship a ship strong enough to form one of the line.—To join do battle to fight.
布赖恩特编辑
娱乐性解释：
Battle signifies striving with difficulties, but a final victory over the same. If you are defeated in battle, it denotes that bad deals made by others will mar your prospects for good.
编辑:沃伦
娱乐性解释：
n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
录入:凯文
例句:
- She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Now the two great fleets closed in a titanic struggle far above the fiendish din of battle in the gorgeous gardens of the therns. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- He gave battle at Kadessia (637). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I was conducted at once to where Sheridan was located with his troops drawn up in line of battle facing the Confederate army near by. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Go, herald, and ask her whether she expects any one to do battle for her in this her cause. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The battle-field was so densely covered with forest that but little could be seen, by any one person, as to the progress made. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- He was one with the _Ingl閟_ still working under the bridge and he was one with all of the battle and with the Republic. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- This kept him out of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There was a series of battles, in which the Russian armies were finally defeated and the Grand Duke of Kieff taken prisoner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- About fifteen hundred years before Christ, this camp-ground of ours by the Waters of Merom was the scene of one of Joshua's exterminating battles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- This battle at Valmy--it was little more than a cannonade--was one of the decisive battles in the world's history. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Instantly he drew his long-sword, and thus evenly armed we set to in earnest for one of the closest battles I ever have fought. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- He had a thousand anecdotes about the famous battles; he knew the position of every regiment and the loss which each had incurred. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- With all his cruel ferocity and coldness there was an undercurrent of something in Tars Tarkas which he seemed ever battling to subdue. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- He went and leaned on the back of the chair again, and seemed to be battling with his own anger, while she looked towards him sadly. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- For a time Gautama wandered alone, the loneliest figure in history, battling for light. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The golden-haired, white-skinned therns battling with desperate courage in hand-to-hand conflict with their ebony-skinned foemen. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- It must have been he whose men you have heard battling within the precincts of the temple. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- You would not wonder that I defend him, said the girl, could you have seen him as I saw him, battling in my behalf with that huge hairy brute. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- After battling for many tedious minutes with the precipice, the same scene presented itself to me, which had wrapt him in extatic wonder. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The more she strove to bring him to her, the more he battled her back. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The Phoenicians, the Carthagenians, the English, Moors, Romans, all have battled for Tangier--all have won it and lost it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- They battled it together for a long time, which was more than either the gentleman or lady concerned in it deserved. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- When mankind were few, it was not here that they battled with the powerful agents of nature, and were enabled to cover the globe with offspring. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
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