英语释义

• ready and able to resort to force or violence;

  "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville

  "they were rough and determined fighting men"

• tough and callous by virtue of experience

片语

pugnacious s好斗的

Pugnacious Collar好斗项圈

Pugnacious Lips好斗嘴唇

pugnacious advance竞争发展

fighting打架；打仗；指挥作战；争论；奋力灭火（fight 的现在分词）

aggressive侵略性的；好斗的；有进取心的；有闯劲的

英汉例句

• but attack ads can backfire on the firms that make them, just as they sometimes do on pugnacious politicians.

  然而，攻击性广告可能会让做广告的公司搬起石头砸了自己的脚，正如攻击性广告对好斗的政客所产生的影响一样。

• but when pugnacious policyholders call after the 20th of the month, the probability that they are acting decreases slightly, since funds from the previous month「s paycheque may be dwindling.

  但当这些好斗的投保人是在月末打回电话时，他们是骗子的可能性就稍稍降低，因为他们上个月的工资也许所剩不多。

• those votes recast his image from pugnacious anti-tax conservative to big-spending establishment republican.

  对布什的支持见证了他从一个好斗的反增税保守主义者向一个花钱不眨眼的共和党当权派的转变。

• at a company meeting last year, steve ballmer, microsoft’s pugnacious boss, spied an employee taking a photo on an apple iphone.

  去年的一次公司会议上,微软好斗的老板史蒂夫-鲍尔默发现一名职员正在用苹果公司的iphone拍照。

• it is hard not to feel a pang of sympathy for liam fox, britain’s pugnacious defence secretary.

  很难让我们不去同情英国那位好斗的国防部长利亚姆?福克斯。

• richard holbrooke, the pugnacious career diplomat who brokered the dayton peace accords in the balkans, will probably get the pakistan-afghanistan portfolio.

  好战的职业外交家理查德.赫尔布鲁克曾经在巴尔干地区经营了代顿和平协议，他很可能将负责巴阿问题；

• mailer」s short sentences carried a more pugnacious message: he was the champ, and would be until someone braver and better knocked him off.

  梅勒的短句隐含着好斗的信息：他是卫冕者，直到出现比他更勇敢和更优秀之人将其击败。

• british airways’ pugnacious boss, willie walsh, who was aboard one of the flights, said: 「since airspace was closed…our assessment is that the risk has been minimal.」

  英国航空公司好战的老板威利?沃尔什也参加其中一个试航航班，他说：「自从领空关闭后……我们的评估是风险程度已经最低了。」

• no matter. true or not, the story is in character: mr emanuel is famous for being the president’s most pugnacious panjandrum and congressional and media manipulator, and proud of it to boot.

  不管此事真假，但这还是生动描述了伊曼纽尔的性格：他素以最为好斗的总统幕僚、国会及媒体操纵者而闻名，且其本人还引以为豪。

• despite the fangirls, he gets lonely: 「although i am pretty intellectually and physically pugnacious i am very protective of women and children,」 he wrote.

  尽管有众多的女粉丝，他还是表现得有点落寞。 「尽管我在思想上，行动上都是一个好斗的人，但我特别爱护妇女和儿童。」

• on court, yao was pugnacious but never repugnant.

  在球场上，姚明十分好胜，但从不令人反感。

• one advertisement features a pugnacious congresswoman declaring that the opposition 「has no life」 left while drawing a finger across her throat.

  一则广告上有一个好斗的国会女议员宣称反对派没有人性，把手指插入她的喉咙。

• the economist sought lord ashcroft’s comments on this, the tax issue and his place in the tory party. his pugnacious spokesman called the questions 「deeply pejorative」.

  经济学家杂志希望阿什克罗夫特勛爵就缴税问题以及他在保守党内的地位发表看法，而他的发言人火药味十足的说这些问题「十分不怀好意」「你们一开始就不想要一个回答？」

• diminutive, pugnacious and profane, he was the chief of staff from central casting.

  矮小、好斗、玩世不恭，他是个焦点人物。

• thailand’s pugnacious prime minister, samak sundaravej, is an especially hard man to defend.

  要维护好斗的泰国总理沙马特别艰巨。

• a pugnacious conservative, mr mappus is the cdu’s loudest advocate of nuclear power.

  作为保守党中的一个鹰派代表，马普斯先生是基民盟内最为推崇核能之人。

• but mr kennedy, despite his pugnacious liberal reputation, wrote many bills with republican colleagues, too.

  尽管好斗的自由派名声在外，但肯尼迪先生也为共和党同仁递交了很多的法案。

• but there is growing alarm about the increasing centralisation of power under the right-wing fidesz government led by viktor orban, hungary’s pugnacious prime minister.

  但是，由匈牙利好斗的首相viktororban领导的右翼青年民主联盟政府，权力集中不断加强的问题，逐步引起人们的注意。

• the browbeater : this rather pugnacious type is again mostly male.

  吹胡子瞪眼类：这种好斗型也大多是男性。

• afterwards i sought the advice of a pugnacious colleague.

  随后我到一个爱吵架的同事那里寻求建议。

• he came to us from barbour county, a pugnacious little man named george wallace who promised to protect us from the outside agitators who were coming down here to destroy our way of life.

  乔治.华莱士是个好斗的小个子男人，来自巴勃县。他告诉我们正有外来的煽动者来到这儿想要破坏我们的生活，并许诺会保护我们。

• this week’s budget confirmed that 21 new 「enterprise zones」 will be set up, and be overseen by a pugnacious survivor of tory governments past, michael heseltine (pictured right).

  本周的预算证实21个新的「企业聚集区」将会成立并受到前布莱尔政府遗老、好斗的michaelheseltine的监督（图中右侧）。

相似词

belligerent交战国；参加斗殴的人或集团

contentious诉讼的；有异议的，引起争论的；爱争论的

offensive攻势；攻击

combative好战的；好事的

militant富有战斗性的人；好斗者；激进分子

combatant战斗的；好斗的