| 释义 | 
		civil warˌcivil ˈwar noun [countable, uncountable]    - George Orwell wrote of the civil war within a civil war, for he was present when this conflict erupted in Barcelona.
 - In 323-4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius, and Constantine was at last sole ruler.
 - In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought, security is shaky.
 - It launched the 25-year-long civil war that resumed this month.
 - The new king's first task will be to prevent the desperately poor country of 23m from sliding into civil war.
 - The rhetoric of rights, which is engendered by this question, is a recipe for class war, and civil war.
 - Their representatives are helping thousands of orphaned children and displaced families escape from the tyranny of civil war.
 - To the King and most of his advisers the verdict was clear and, short of risking civil war, irresistible.
 
    a war in which opposing groups of people from the same country fight each other in order to gain political control:   the Spanish Civil War  |