英语词汇“faction fighting”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. attributive. Designating or relating to conflict or violence arising between factions (esp. in sense 2d), as faction fight, faction fighter, faction fighting, etc.

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1830 National Mag. 1 565 If a faction fight had once commenced between them, it might be kept up in fairs and markets for centuries to come.

1831 J. Banim & M. Banim Chaunt of Cholera 43 (note) The facts of these verses occurred..at the time when efforts were made to put an end to the faction-fighting of the Irish peasantry.

1846 Parl. Gazetteer Ireland, 1844–5 III. 229/2 [Shillelagh] having furnished many thousand most approved sticks to brawling and riotous faction-fighters.

1880Faction fight [see sense 2d(b)].

?1948 A. W. Hoernle in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu: 100 Zulu Lyrics p. viii Faction fighting is not ‘warfare’ as we know it, but it is to the Zulu a kind of national sport.

1983 Sowetan (Johannesburg) 12 Sept. 2 Police are working on a new strategy to curb the rising number of ‘faction’ killings at Soweto's hostels..after the killing of a ‘faction’ gunman who earlier shot two people.

1990 Independent on Sunday 18 Feb. 13/8 The rural Zulus [are] often driven to the squatter camps in the townships by overcrowding or faction fights in the countryside.

2001 New Internationalist Nov. 17/2 The Soviet Union withdrew in 1989 and, in the faction-fighting that followed, much of the country [sc. Afghanistan] that hadn't already been destroyed was flattened.

单词	faction fighting
释义	> as lemmas faction fighting b. attributive. Designating or relating to conflict or violence arising between factions (esp. in sense 2d), as faction fight, faction fighter, faction fighting, etc. ΚΠ 1830 National Mag. 1 565 If a faction fight had once commenced between them, it might be kept up in fairs and markets for centuries to come. 1831 J. Banim & M. Banim Chaunt of Cholera 43 (note) The facts of these verses occurred..at the time when efforts were made to put an end to the faction-fighting of the Irish peasantry. 1846 Parl. Gazetteer Ireland, 1844–5 III. 229/2 [Shillelagh] having furnished many thousand most approved sticks to brawling and riotous faction-fighters. 1880Faction fight [see sense 2d(b)]. ?1948 A. W. Hoernle in H. Tracey Lalela Zulu: 100 Zulu Lyrics p. viii Faction fighting is not ‘warfare’ as we know it, but it is to the Zulu a kind of national sport. 1983 Sowetan (Johannesburg) 12 Sept. 2 Police are working on a new strategy to curb the rising number of ‘faction’ killings at Soweto's hostels..after the killing of a ‘faction’ gunman who earlier shot two people. 1990 Independent on Sunday 18 Feb. 13/8 The rural Zulus [are] often driven to the squatter camps in the townships by overcrowding or faction fights in the countryside. 2001 New Internationalist Nov. 17/2 The Soviet Union withdrew in 1989 and, in the faction-fighting that followed, much of the country [sc. Afghanistan] that hadn't already been destroyed was flattened. extracted from factionn.¹ < as lemmas
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