pugnacious

英語

詞源

借自拉丁語，派生自pugnāx，源自pugnō (「戰鬥」)，源自pugnus (「拳頭」)。

發音

• (英國，美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /pʌɡˈneɪ.ʃəs/

• （正統英式）音頻：

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• 韻部：-eɪʃəs

形容詞

pugnacious (比較級 more pugnacious，最高級 most pugnacious)

1. 好鬥的，好戰的
   • 1858, Anthony Trollope, 章號 3, 出自 Dr Thorne:

     Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.

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   • 2003, Ken Follett, Hornet Flight‎^[1], →ISBN，第 249-250 頁s:

     In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.

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   • 2014年10月21日, Oliver Brown, 「Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]」, 出自 The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[2]:

     [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

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近義詞

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相關詞彙

• impugn
• poniard
• pugilism
• pugnacity
• repugn（repugnant）