pugnacious

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借自拉丁語,派生自pugnāx,源自pugnō (战斗),源自pugnus (拳头)

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pugnacious (比較級 more pugnacious最高級 most pugnacious)

  1. 好斗的,好战
    • 1858Anthony 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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    • 2003Ken FollettHornet Flight[1], →ISBN, 頁號249-250:
      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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