internecine
英 [,?nt?'ni?sa?n]
美['?nt?'nisa?n]
- adj. 兩敗俱傷的；互相殘殺的；致命的
GRE
中文詞源
internecine 內(nèi)訌
inter-,在內(nèi)，在中間，相互，-nec,妨害，傷害，詞源同noxious,nuisance.即內(nèi)部相互傷害，內(nèi)訌。
英文詞源
- internecine
- internecine: [17] Etymologically, internecine denotes ‘a(chǎn)ttended by great slaughter’. Its modern connotations of ‘conflict within a group’, which can be traced back to the 18th century (Dr Johnson in his Dictionary 1755 defines it as ‘endeavouring mutual destruction’), presumably arise from the standard interpretation of inter- as ‘a(chǎn)mong, between’. But in fact in the case of internecine it was originally used simply as an intensive prefix.
The word was borrowed from Latin internecīnus, a derivative of internecāre ‘slaughter, exterminate’. This was a compound verb formed with the intensive inter- from necāre ‘kill’ (a relative of English necromancy and pernicious).
=> necromancy, pernicious - internecine (adj.)
- 1660s, "deadly, destructive," from Latin internecinus "very deadly, murderous, destructive," from internecare "kill or destroy," from inter (see inter-) + necare "kill" (see noxious). Considered in the OED as misinterpreted in Johnson's Dictionary [1755], which defined it as "endeavouring mutual destruction," on association of inter- with "mutual" when the prefix supposedly is used in this case as an intensive. From Johnson, wrongly or not, has come the main modern definition of "mutually destructive."
雙語例句
- 1. The whole episode has drawn attention again to internecine strife in the ruling party.
- 整個(gè)事件再次引起人們對執(zhí)政黨內(nèi)部紛爭的關(guān)注。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The internecine strife was caused by a shortage of food.
- 這次內(nèi)部沖突，是由于食物匱乏而引致的。
來自辭典例句
- 3. Strife was internecine during the next fortnight.
- 在以后兩個(gè)星期的沖突中我們兩敗俱傷.
來自辭典例句
- 4. Marx foresaw constant internecine warfare among capitalists, resulting in and fewer controlling vaster and vaster empires.
- 馬克思預(yù)見到資本家會不斷自相殘殺, 結(jié)果將造成越來越少的人控制著越來越大的帝國.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. The strike with acerb contradictory conflict, massive capital, shut out, make both sides of capital internecine.
- 尖銳的勞資矛盾沖突 、 大規(guī)模的罷工 、 閉廠, 使得勞資雙方兩敗俱傷.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)