pugnacious

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借自拉丁语，派生自pugnāx，源自pugnō (“战斗”)，源自pugnus (“拳头”)。

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pugnacious (比较级 more pugnacious, 最高级 most pugnacious)

  1. 好斗的，好战的
    • 1858, Anthony Trollope, 章号 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，页号s 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 10月 21, 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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