Skirmish
[ 'skɝmɪʃ ]
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n. 小规模战斗;小争论;小冲突;[体]〈美〉比赛;
v. 参与小争斗;进行小争论;搜索;侦察;
vi. 进行小规模战斗;发生小争论;
📝 例句
An encounter between hostile forces; a battle or skirmish.
小冲突敌对力量间的遭遇；战斗或零星冲突
We won a skirmish, and we'll win him some more.
我们打赢了一场小仗，还要再给他打赢几仗。
This was a only petty, front-line skirmish.
这只是前沿阵地上小小的交锋。
The troops were bloodied in the skirmish.
部队在冲突中发生了流血事件
A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.
传统的小规模战斗更有可能逐步升级为核战争。
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ skir-skirt裙子,mish-谐音“迷失”:裙子丢了会引起夫妻之间的小口角
※ ski-shy天空,rm-拼音“人们”,ish-fish鱼:天空中人们为了鱼展开了小规模战斗
✅ 同义词
🔴 反义词
📖 牛津释义
skirmish
n
fight between small groups of soldiers, ships, etc, esp one that is not planned 小规模战斗; 小冲突; （尤指）遭遇战
a brief skirmish on the frontier 边界上的小规模冲突
(fig 比喻) a skirmish between the two party leaders 两党领导人间的摩擦. Cf 参看 pitched battle (pitch2). skirmish, v [I]
take part in a skirmish 进行小规模战斗或冲突.
🔁 扩展释义
*['skә:miʃ]n. 前哨战, 小争论, 小冲突vi. 发生小争论, 侦察
📖 同为「GRE」词汇
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No, I'm just looking at the menu. Are you hungry?
还没有，我正在看菜单。你饿了吧？
For all his life, he had known that people suddenly disappeared from their villages.
他一生中，听说过有的人突然间在他们的村庄失踪了。
Just now we all watched you sign to show that you had received the cheque.
刚才我们大家都观察到了你为表明已收到那张支票而签名。