| 单词 | hot war |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot war hot war n. [in sense (b) after cold war n. at cold adj. Compounds 4] (a) war characterized by particularly intense and violent conflict; an instance of this; cf. sense A. 9a; (b) open warfare, active hostilities; an armed conflict (opposed to cold war; now the usual sense). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > active or open war open warc1380 hot war1600 shooting war1941 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliv. 1182 Antiochus now king of Syria..made hot war [L. bellum..gerens] upon his younger brother, who then held Alexandria. 1768 J. Lees Jrnl. (1911) 39 The Chipawas..were at this time in a hot war with the Sous. 1937 C. W. Elliott Winfield Scott iv. 42 The city was boiling with excitement and war fever... A hot war was in immediate prospect. 1947 Portland (Maine) Press Herald 22 Apr. 4/1 Perhaps life is a dream... Cold war or hot war, it is not a pleasant dream just now. 1955 Times 5 July 11/6 It is a reasonable assumption that a hot war would be measured in months if not weeks. 2002 S. Pinker Blank Slate (Book Club ed.) xvii. 306 Though the cold war is a memory, and hot wars between major nations are rare, we still do not have peace in the world. < as lemmas |
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