英语
词源
借自拉丁语，派生自pugnāx，源自pugnō (“战斗”)，源自pugnus (“拳头”)。
发音
形容词
pugnacious（比较级 more pugnacious，最高级 most pugnacious）
- 好斗的，好战的
- 1858，Anthony Trollope，章号3，出自 Dr Thorne:
- Not that the doctor was a bully, or even pugnacious, in the usual sense of the word; he had no disposition to provoke a fight, no propense love of quarrelling.
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- 2003，Ken Follett， Hornet Flight[1], →ISBN, 页号249-250:
- In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack.
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- 2014年10月21日，Oliver Brown，“Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”，出自 The Daily Telegraph (Sport)[2]:
- [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
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近义词
- 另见Thesaurus:combative
