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形 名词复数：-s[-z]；规则动词：-s[-z]；-ed[-d]；-ing 义 Everyday Expressions ◆ n. 战争

When did the First World War break out? ◆ n. 斗争

This is a war between science and religion. ◆ vi. 进行战斗

We are warring for national independence.

◆冷战 --- cold war

◆鸦片战争 --- Opium War ◆贸易战 --- a trade war ◆内战 --- a civil war

◆游击战 --- a guerrilla war ◆闪电战 --- a lightning war ◆防御战 --- a defensive war ◆进攻战 --- an offensive war ◆核战争 --- a nuclear war ◆正义的战争 --- a just war

◆大规模内战 --- a large-scale civil war ◆不流血的战争 --- a white war

复合词语

◆ warfare 战争

◆ warlike 好战的 a warlike people

Linguistic Skill

常见搭配 Useful Phrases ◆ 战犯 --- war criminal ◆ 战马 --- war horse

◆ 处于交战状态 --- be at war ◆ 宣战 --- to declare war

◆ 向某人开战 --- to go to war against sb.

Communicating Clearly

生活用语 Street Talks

◆ They saw an old war movie last night. ◆ One country declared war on another. ◆ Look, you don’t have to start a war over this.

Cultural Focus

电影对白 Transcripts 句型

◆ Now when I was a baby, Mama named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. 《阿甘正传》

◆ After we win this war, and we take over something, we can get American shrimpers to come out and shrimp these waters. 《阿甘正传》 对话

◆ Proester: Yeah! Yeah! Come one, man. Get up there. Tell us a little bit about the war, man. Gump: The war in Vietnam? 《阿甘正传》

谚语 Proverbs

◆ War is death’s feast. 战争是死亡的盛宴。 ◆ Wars bring scars. 战争带来创伤。

名言Quotations ◆ All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Tony Benn (b. 1925), British Labour politician. Speech, 28 Feb. 1991, to

House of Commons, the day the Gulf War ended.

◆ War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, The lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet. Queen Mab, pt. 4.