altercation
altercation 英 [ˌɔ:ltəˈkeɪʃn] 美 [ˌɔltərˈkeɪʃn]
n. 争执
名词复数:altercations
- Altercation is a nicer word for "quarrel," which is a nicer word for "fight."
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- n. 争执
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1. The woman was walking with her husband who ended up being stabbed twice in the hand after the altercation.
这名女子当时与她的丈夫一起行走，而她的丈夫最后在争执中手部被连刺两刀。
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2. This altercation had lasted for some time, when, in the third year of Darling’s administration, a very small event was sufficient to set the whole colony in an uproar.
这种争执持续了一段时间。 在达令任职的第三年发生的一件小事，足足使整个殖民地陷入喧嚣之中。
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3. Evidently two of the girls there had an altercation and one pushed the other off the wharf and into the water.
显然，那里的两个女孩子互相有了争执，所以其中一个人把另一个人从泊船的地方推下了水。
- altercation (n.) late 14c., "angry contention with words," from Old French altercacion "altercation" (12c.) and directly from Latin altercationem (nominative altercatio) "a dispute, debate, discussion," noun of action from past participle stem of altercari "to dispute (with another)," from alter "the other" (see alter). The notion perhaps is of "speaking alternately."
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