belligerent

名词 belligerent:

1. someone who fights (or is fighting)
   同义词：combatant, battler, fighter, scrapper

形容词 belligerent:

1. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
   同义词：aggressive
2. engaged in war
   同义词：fighting, militant, war-ridden, warring

1. Goods that may be seized and confiscated by a belligerent if shipped to another belligerent by a neutral.
   战时禁运品若由中立国运输至交战国一方则交战国另一方可将其扣押并且没收的货物
2. The boys found it hard to get along with Tom, because he always said some very belligerent things.
   孩子们觉得汤姆很难相处，因他老是说些十分挑衅性的话。
3. A belligerent person or a militant partisan.
   交战的人或好战的游击队队员
4. Combative in nature; belligerent.
   好战的本性好斗的; 交战的

bel.lig.er.ent

adj.（形容词）
Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
好战的：倾向于或渴望战斗的；敌对的或爱寻衅的
Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
交战的：战争的、关于或陷入交战中的
n.（名词）
One that is hostile or aggressive, especially one that is engaged in war.
交战者：敌对的或爱寻衅的人或一方，尤指参与战争者

来源：
Latin belliger3ns belligerant- [present participle of] belliger3re [to wage war]
拉丁语 belliger3ns belligerant- [] belliger3re的现在分词 [进行战争]
from belliger [warlike]
源自 belliger [好战的]
bellum [war]
bellum [战争]
gerere [to make]
gerere [制造]

【引伸】
bellig.erently
adv.（副词）
<参考词汇><同义词>belligerent,bellicose,pugnacious,contentious,quarrelsomeThese adjectives are compared as they mean having or showing an eagerness to fight.
这些形容词用来比喻具有或显示了对战斗的渴望。
Belligerent may specify actual engagement in combat (
Belligerent 可以特指确实参与在战斗中（
例句：
tried to arrange a truce between the belligerent nations), or it may refer to a tendency to hostile behavior (
交战两国努力达成休战协议）， 或者可以指敌对行为的倾向（

例句：
A belligerent reporter badgered the President for the facts).
一名好寻衅的记者就一些事实纠缠总统）。

Bellicose and pugnacious suggest a natural disposition to fight:
Bellicose
.All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. (H.L. Mencken).
pugnacious 意指存有对战斗的自然倾向：
例句：
.所有成功的报纸都是不停地发牢骚的和好斗的。如果能够避免，他们从不卫护任何人或任何事。如果要强迫他们这么做，他们就通过斥责别人或别的事来解决问题. （H.L.麦肯）。

例句：
A retired litigator misses the challenge to her pugnacious intellect.
一位退休的诉讼人怀念对其好斗才智的挑战。

Contentious implies chronic argumentativeness:
Contentious 意指惯常的好争辩：
例句：
.His style has been described variously as abrasive and contentious, overbearing and pompous. (Victor Merina).
.他的风格有时被描述为令人讨厌和好争论的，有时又被形容为傲慢和自负的. （维克多·梅里纳）。

Quarrelsome suggests bad temper and a perverse readiness to bicker and quarrel:
Quarrelsome 意指坏脾气和对争论或争吵具有违反常情的机敏：
例句：
.On the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and . . . they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome. (Benjamin Franklin).
.工作的日子他们脾气又好，又愉快，并且…快乐地度过夜晚；但当闲暇时，他们捣乱造反，喜好争吵. （本杰明·弗兰克林）