strife

英 [straɪf]

美 [straɪf]

n.  冲突; 争斗; 倾轧; 麻烦; 纠纷; 困难

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牛津词典

noun

• 冲突；争斗；倾轧
  angry or violent disagreement between two people or groups of people
  1. civil strife
     内乱
  2. The country was torn apart by strife.
     这个国家被内部纷争搞得四分五裂。
• 麻烦；纠纷；困难
  trouble or difficulty of any kind

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 严重不和;冲突;争斗
  Strifeis strong disagreement or fighting.
  1. Money is a major cause of strife in many marriages...
     金钱是造成很多婚姻不和的一个主要原因。
  2. The boardroom strife at the company is far from over...
     公司董事会的明争暗斗还远没有结束。
  3. It remains a highly unstable and strife-torn country.
     这仍是一个动荡不安、冲突不断的国家。

英英释义

noun

• bitter conflict
• lack of agreement or harmony
  Synonym:discord

双语例句

• We would have avoided all this suffering simply by shrinking from strife.
  要是我们在冲突面前畏缩不前，我们可以避免这些痛苦；
• For spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
  毁灭和强暴在我面前。又起了争端和相斗的事。
• The whole episode has drawn attention again to internecine strife in the ruling party.
  整个事件再次引起人们对执政党内部纷争的关注。
• All people are smiling, forget all the worries, strife, suffering and trouble.
  人们个个都满面春风，忘却了一切的忧虑、争斗、痛苦和烦恼。
• Historians have also pointed to links between particularly severe Ni ñ os and episodes of serious strife.
  历史学家已经指出了非常严重的厄尔尼诺和激烈冲突的发生之间的联系。
• Succession was a problem for the Yuan Dynasty, later causing much strife and internal struggle.
  继承是一个问题的元代，后来造成许多冲突和内部斗争。
• What's the use of this endless strife? He wondered.
  他想，这样不断地跟长辈冲突有什么好处呢？
• Still others are obsessed by factionalism after having gone through several years of such strife.
  有的是打了几年派仗，被派性迷住了心窍。
• Beset by ethnic strife, the province remains ungovernable
  该省因受种族冲突困扰而失控。
• Today we had a forcible reminder of the continuing strife there.
  今天，我们遇到一件事，有力地提醒我们那儿争斗持续不断。