We have had two world wars in this century. 本世纪我们已经经历了两次世界大战。
The prospect of another war appalled us. 想到有可能发生另一场战争,我们不寒而栗。
war warred, warring
[ noun ]
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
<noun.act> thousands of people were killed in the war
a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
<noun.state> war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring
an active struggle between competing entities
<noun.act> a price war a war of wits diplomatic warfare
a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious
<noun.act> the war on poverty the war against crime [ verb ]
make or wage war
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War \War\, a. Ware; aware. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
War \War\, n. [OE. & AS. werre; akin to OHG. werra scandal, quarrel, sedition, werran to confound, mix, D. warren, G. wirren, verwirren, to embroil, confound, disturb, and perhaps to E. worse; cf. OF. werre war, F. querre, of Teutonic origin. Cf. {Guerrilla}, {Warrior}.] 1. A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
Men will ever distinguish war from mere bloodshed. --F. W. Robertson.
Note: As war is the contest of nations or states, it always implies that such contest is authorized by the monarch or the sovereign power of the nation. A war begun by attacking another nation, is called an offensive war, and such attack is aggressive. War undertaken to repel invasion, or the attacks of an enemy, is called defensive.
2. (Law) A condition of belligerency to be maintained by physical force. In this sense, levying war against the sovereign authority is treason.
3. Instruments of war. [Poetic]
His complement of stores, and total war. --Prior.
4. Forces; army. [Poetic]
On their embattled ranks the waves return, And overwhelm their war. --Milton.
5. The profession of arms; the art of war.
Thou art but a youth, and he is a man of war from his youth. --1 Sam. xvii. 33.
6. a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. ``Raised impious war in heaven.'' --Milton.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. --Ps. lv. 21.
{Civil war}, a war between different sections or parties of the same country or nation.
{Holy war}. See under {Holy}.
{Man of war}. (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary.
{Public war}, a war between independent sovereign states.
{War cry}, a cry or signal used in war; as, the Indian war cry.
{War dance}, a dance among savages preliminary to going to war. Among the North American Indians, it is begun by some distinguished chief, and whoever joins in it thereby enlists as one of the party engaged in a warlike excursion. --Schoolcraft.
{War field}, a field of war or battle.
{War horse}, a horse used in war; the horse of a cavalry soldier; especially, a strong, powerful, spirited horse for military service; a charger.
{War paint}, paint put on the face and other parts of the body by savages, as a token of going to war. ``Wash the war paint from your faces.'' --Longfellow.
{War song}, a song of or pertaining to war; especially, among the American Indians, a song at the war dance, full of incitements to military ardor.
{War whoop}, a war cry, especially that uttered by the American Indians.
War \War\, v. t. 1. To make war upon; to fight. [R.]
To war the Scot, and borders to defend. --Daniel.
2. To carry on, as a contest; to wage. [R.]
That thou . . . mightest war a good warfare. --Tim. i. 18.
War \War\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Warred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Warring}.] 1. To make war; to invade or attack a state or nation with force of arms; to carry on hostilities; to be in a state by violence.
Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it. --Isa. vii. 1.
Why should I war without the walls of Troy? --Shak.
Our countrymen were warring on that day! --Byron.
2. To contend; to strive violently; to fight. ``Lusts which war against the soul.'' --1 Pet. ii. 11.
At Drexel he courted RJR Nabisco President F. Ross Johnson, whobegan the bidding war for the food and tobacco giant.
At least one British war veteran attending the wreath-laying ceremony thought Philip's visit to Japan was justified.
Yasukuni Shrine was established in 1869 to honor Japan's war dead.
Sihanouk said the war would continue between Hun Sen forces and the thrid faction of his resistance coalition, the Communist Khmer Rouge, which boycotted the Tokyo conference sessions and did not sign the communique.
Mr Evans Nicolas, the self-styled leader of the revived macoutes, said he and his faction were ready for 'civil war' to thwart the return of the president.
Is it true, as he observes, that Israel had "nothing to lose" in the 1967 war because Washington would have rescued it?
But there was no corresponding war of words, and Israeli officials stressed they sought to avoid a confrontation with Syria.
The ones who have escaped _ they are a special chapter, the lost possibilities." Of the remaining war criminals, he said: "They are getting old. This is my daily problem.
Site Two is the largest border refugee camp, housing 162,000 Cambodians who fled economic hardship and a guerrilla war against occupying Vietnamese troops.
The civil war began 10 years ago when a communist coup brought to power a government friendly to the Soviet Union.
All appear to share one conviction: War or no war, there is no future in Nicaragua.
Israel's Supreme Court, after clearing John Demjanjuk of being Nazi killer 'Ivan the Terrible', blocked his deportation to Ukraine while it considered whether he should be tried for other alleged war crimes.
Specifically, Mr. Rafsanjani probably is hoping for greater British and German help in rebuilding important oil facilities damaged by the war.
Had the latest coup attempt succeeded, the result could have been another civil war in this country of 100 million, wrote columnist Richard Akinnola wrote in the independent Vanguard newspaper.
It was the the most dramatic show of U.S. force in the six-year Nicaraguan war and came in response to a request for help from Honduras' president, Jose Azcona Hoyo.
The Kurdish Democratic Party and other Kurdish factions, backed by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, escalated their war against Baghdad two years ago.
The fact that it is set on the eve of the Yom Kippur war is about as trite as another play on the night that Kennedy died: more nostalgia than comment.
That political crisis triggered the latest spasm of fighting in Lebanon's 14-year-old civil war.
Indeed, administration officials acknowledged that the new diplomatic plan was announced after a meeting between President Reagan and congressional leaders because so many lawmakers had urged greater efforts to end the war.
Most war refugees living in Iran belong to Afghanistan's minority Shiite sect of Islam, which is practiced by most Iranians. Those in Pakistan are Sunni Moslems.
The government has concluded that both Eastern Airlines and its sister carrier, Continental Airlines, are safe to fly, but a bitter labor-management war at Eastern raises possible safety risks if allowed to continue.
It is seen as vital to maintaining momentum toward a negotiated end to El Salvador's 10-year-old civil war, which has killed an estimated 72,000 people.
Markets don't go down in a straight line." The stock market rallied and oil prices eased as the world's battered financial markets gained optimism that a Middle East war had been averted _ at least for a while.
U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Marrack Goulding told a news conference in the Iraqi capital that each side on Tuesday handed over the bodies of eight soldiers killed during the eight-year war.
Tens of thousands of people poured into streets and parks of the capital today to celebrate reconstruction of the southern port of Faw, which was almost destroyed during the war with Iran.
About one-third of Poland was part of Germany before the war.
"The government is not at war with the airlines," he added. "But it's not enough for the government to do it alone." In the four seizures since August, 494 pounds of cocaine has been found aboard Eastern aircraft.
'It started with the inter-Christian war in 1990.
Coffee prices had strengthened in the past two weeks on speculation that the Bush administration would take a more conciliatory stance in ICO talks as part of its war on drugs.
There was no independent confirmation and no comment by Baghdad, which has been fighting a brutal mountain war against the Kurdish guerrillas, who seek an independent homeland.