音标与读法

这里为大家介绍下pugnacious 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

音标：[ pʌg"neiʃəs ]

中英文翻译

adj.

爱吵架的，好斗的。

n.

-nacity

好斗性。

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"

同义词：rough,

tough and callous by virtue of experience

同义词：hard-bitten, hard-boiled,

例句与用法

1.My normally easygoing personality turned pugnacious .

我惯常随和的性情变得暴躁了。

2.This view was a necessary consequence of his pessimistic estimate of human beings as selfish, uncooperative, and pugnacious creatures .

这种观点是他那种把人类看成是自私自利的、不可合作的、寻衅好斗的动物的悲观主义观点的必然产物。

3.There was a better hand across the table , held by a pugnacious irish youth , who was a political hanger - on of the tammany district in which they were located

此人是当地坦慕尼派控制的选区的一个政治食客，他手里有一副更好的牌。

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