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fight

英 [faɪt] 美[faɪt]

英英释义同义词辨析词组搭配考试真题实用场景例句

近义词war argue battle attack oppose quarrel contend quibble disagree wrestle feud combat dispute

vi. 打架；与…打仗，与…斗争；反对…提案
n. 打架；战斗，斗志

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词态变化

第三人称单数: fights;过去式: fought;过去分词: fought;现在分词: fighting;名词: fighting;

中文词源

fight 战斗

来自PIE*pek,拔出，拔羊毛，引申词义战斗。词源可能同PIE*peig, *peik, 邪恶的，敌对的，词源同foe, feud.

英英释意

1. the act of fighting; any contest or struggle;: "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap"

2. an intense verbal dispute;: "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate"

3. a boxing match;: "the fight was on television last night"

4. a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;: "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"

5. an aggressive willingness to compete;: "the team was full of fight"

英文词源

fight: fight: [OE] The deadly earnestness of fighting seems to have had its etymological origins in the rather petty act of pulling someone’s hair. Fight, together with German fechten and Dutch vechten, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *fekhtan, which appears to come from the same ultimate source as Latin pectere ‘comb’ and Greek péko ‘comb’.

The missing links in the apparently far-fetched semantic chain between ‘fighting’ and ‘combing’ are provided by such words as Spanish pelear ‘fight, quarrel’, a derivative of pelo ‘hair’, which originally meant ‘pull hair’; German raufen ‘pull out, pluck’, which when used reflexively means ‘fight’; and English tussle, which originally meant ‘pull roughly’, and may be related to tousle.
fight (v.): Old English feohtan "to combat, contend with weapons, strive; attack; gain by fighting, win" (intransitive; class III strong verb; past tense feaht, past participle fohten), from Proto-Germanic *fehtan (cognates: Old High German fehtan, German fechten, Middle Dutch and Dutch vechten, Old Frisian fiuhta "to fight"), from PIE *pek- (2) "to pluck out" (wool or hair), apparently with a notion of "pulling roughly" (cognates: Greek pekein "to comb, shear," pekos "fleece, wool;" Persian pashm "wool, down," Latin pectere "to comb," Sanskrit paksman- "eyebrows, hair").

Spelling substitution of -gh- for a "hard H" sound was a Middle English scribal habit, especially before -t-. In some late Old English examples, the middle consonant was represented by a yogh. Among provincial early Modern English spellings, Wright lists faight, fate, fecht, feeght, feight, feit, feyght, feyt, feort, foight.

From c. 1200 as "offer resistance, struggle;" also "to quarrel, wrangle, create a disturbance." From late 14c. as "be in conflict." Transitive use from 1690s. To fight for "contest on behalf of" is from early 14c. To fight back "resist" is recorded from 1890. Well figt þat wel fligt ("he fights well that flies fast") was a Middle English proverb.
fight (n.): Old English feohte, gefeoht "a fight, combat, hostile encounter;" see fight (v.). Compare Old Frisian fiucht, Old Saxon fehta, Dutch gevecht, Old High German gifeht, German Gefecht. Meaning "power or inclination to fight" is from 1812.

同义词辨析

battle, war, campaign, struggle, warfare, fight, combat, engagement

这些名词均有"战斗，战争"之意。

battle：侧重指战争中的一次较全面、时间较长的战斗，也指陆军或海军在某一特定地区进行的战斗，或个人之间的争斗。

war：是战争的总称，一般指包括多个战役的大规模战争。

campaign：通常指在一场大的战争中在某一地区进行的一连串有既定目的的军事行动。也可作引申用。

struggle：指激烈或时间持续长的战斗或奋力斗争。

warfare：侧重指战争状态或具体的作战方法。

fight：最普通用词，含义广，指战斗、斗争或打斗。

combat：泛指军事行动，尤指小规模的战斗，甚至是格斗。

engagement：指交战，交火。

考试真题

His solution was to learn something from the rebels it was fighting: decentralising authority to self-organising teams.

The so-called mindful-eating strategies can fight distractions and help us control our appetite, Brunstrom says

seven robberies and about 60 other violent attacks, most of these involving fights at parties.

The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them.

Online programs to fight depression are already commercially available.

Sleeping better may help fight off illness.

So the job of the immune system is to fight infections.

Perhaps there is less to fight about, with the country in a period of tranquility and the dangers of drug abuse and other unwholesome behavior well known.

Currently, there’s mounting criticism of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, which fights childhood obesity by encouraging youngsters to become more physically active, and it signed on singer Beyonce and basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, both of whom also endorse sodas which are a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.

The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across the political establishment.

Politicians are beginning to realise the importance of enlisting psychologists' help in fighting climate change.

The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (讲求实用的) and immediate in its impact.

Despite the modesty of the benefit, the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups fought it bitterly, describing it as "government-run personnel management" and a "dangerous precedent".

Indians likewise had the traditional life taken from them by white settlers who often encourage them to consume alcohol to prevent them from fighting back.

To stop them from fighting back

If you do lose your job, the union will fight to get it back for you along with back pay—your lost income.

"The project has two sides," says Xavier Serrat, Neurice project manager and researcher at the University of Barcelona,"the short-term fight against the snail, and a mid- to long-term fight against climate change.

Efforts like painting eyes on cow butts may seem crazy at first, but they could make actual headway in the fight for conservation.

Then, when we try to have that amazing work session in fight, we get nothing done.

According to the author, polluting industries should fight against carbon pollution.

Attached was a recording, a recording of loss and love, of the fight.

But when I arrived at the check-in desk at providence, the lady on the desk said: "well, I'm really sorry, I've got some bad news for you-there are no fights from Washington.

I guess the answer is, we were fighting for survival, protecting and providing for those we loved.

Misery inspires a man to fight against his fate.

On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts Ea Tomatina—the world's largest food fight.

Pheromones can signal that an animal is either ready to fight or is feeling open to partnerships.

Risk-takers were better at hunting, fighting, or exploring.

She intends to fight to make it a woman's as well as a man's world.

The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50, 000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back.

The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes—official fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.

The plants get ready to fight back.

There can be a busy executive who fights to keep to his schedule.

This trend, which was started by the medical community as a method of fighting heart disease, has had some unintended side effects such as overweight and heart disease--the very thing the medical community was trying to fight.

Transparent animals use different tricks to fight scattering.

Travelers have traditionally fought this problem with sleeping pills or alcohol.

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

One could interpret much of the work of Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable, but the courage to fight it renders life worth living.

Forests give us shade, quiet and one of the harder challenges in the fight against climate change.

If we readjust our view of arguments—from a verbal fight or tennis game to a reasoned exchange through which we all gain mutual respect, and understanding—then we change the very nature of what it means to "win" an argument.

If you see a conversation as a fight or competition, you can win by cheating as long as you don't get caught.

词组搭配

fight a losing battle

be fated to fail in one's efforts

注定失败；徒劳

he was fighting a losing battle to stem the tears.
他徒劳地想要止住泪水。

make a fight of it

put up a spirited show of resistance in a fight or contest

奋力抵抗

United certainly made a fight of it in the second half.
毫无疑问，联队在下半场奋起抵抗了。

fight or flight

the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away

或进或退；要么拼搏，要么逃走

put up a fight

offer resistance to an attack

抗击

fight back

counter-attack or retaliate in a fight, struggle, or contest

还击，反击

fight it out

settle a dispute by fighting or competing aggressively

以斗争方式解决争端

they fought it out with a tug-of-war.
他们通过激烈的竞争来解决问题。

(fight someone/thing off)defend oneself against an attack by someone or something

抵挡，防范

well-fed people are better able to fight off infectious disease.
营养充足的人更能抵抗传染病。

fight off

To defend against or drive back (a hostile force, for example).

抵抗，击退：防御或击退（例如一股敌对势力）

fight fire with fire

To combat one evil or one set of negative circumstances by reacting in kind.

以毒攻毒：在与邪恶或反动势力作斗争时以其人之道还制其人是身

fight shy of

To avoid meeting or confronting.

畏避，避开

实用场景例句

We should take some comfort from the ability of the judicial system to fight back against corruption.: 司法制度有能力惩治腐败，这应使我们感到些许欣慰。

The teenage attackers fled when the two men fought back...: 当那两名男子还击时，袭击他们的少年逃之夭夭。

He is still fighting for his life in hospital.: 他仍在医院与死神搏斗。

After a good night's sleep I feel fighting fit again.: 昨夜睡得很香，我又觉得自己精力充沛了。

When they didn't shoot at me right away, I figured I had a fighting chance.: 当他们没有立即向我开枪时，我估摸自己还有一线生机。

He fought with the urge to smoke one of the cigars he'd given up awhile ago...: 他努力克制自己的烟瘾，不去抽一支戒掉没多久的雪茄。

I desperately fought the urge to giggle...: 我拼命地想忍住笑。

I thought that we had a lot of fight in us.: 我觉得我们斗志高昂。

Gwendolen started fighting her teachers...: 格温德琳开始同老师争执起来。

I fought my way into a carriage just before the doors closed...: 我刚挤进车厢，车门就关上了。

Peter fought his way through a blizzard to save one of the chickens.: 彼得为了救其中一只鸡在暴风雪中艰难前行。

This was Hyer's last fight, for no one else challenged him...: 这是海尔的最后一场比赛，因为再没有人向他发起挑战。

The referee stopped the fight.: 裁判叫停了比赛。

In a few hours' time one of the world's most famous boxers will be fighting in Britain for the first time...: 几个小时后，世界最著名的拳击手之一将开始其在英国的首场比赛。

I'd like to fight him because he's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him...: 我想和他对阵，因为他从没有输过，而我想成为打败他的第一人。

The former party treasurer helped raise almost £40 million to fight the election campaign.: 该党的前任财政部长帮助筹集了近 4,000 万英镑用于竞选。

...the fight for power between the two parties.: 两党间的权力之争

Watkins sued the Army and fought his case in various courts for 10 years...: 沃特金斯将军队诉至法院，并在各级法庭打了 10 年的官司。

The newspaper is fighting a damages action brought by the actress.: 这家报纸正和提起损害赔偿诉讼的女演员对簿公堂。

She was always arguing with him and fighting with him...: 她总是跟他争辩吵嘴。

As a child she fought with her younger sister...: 她小时候会和妹妹打架。

I did fight him, I punched him but it was like hitting a wall...: 我确实和他打了起来，我挥拳向他猛击，但就像打在墙上一样。

If I were a young man I would sooner go to prison than fight for this country...: 如果我是个年轻人，我宁愿进监狱也不愿为这个国家打仗。

He fought in the war and was taken prisoner by the Americans...: 他参了战，后被美国人俘虏。

In the latest incident at the weekend police fought a gun battle with a gang which used hand grenades against them...: 在周末发生的最近一起暴力事件中，警方与向他们投掷手榴弹的一伙匪徒展开了枪战。

Mother Teresa is an elderly nun who has devoted her life to fighting poverty...: 德肋撒嬷嬷是一位毕生致力于消除贫困事业的年迈修女。

More units to fight forest fires are planned...: 计划设立更多单位防控森林火灾。

Our Government should be fighting for an end to food subsidies...: 我们政府应该努力废止食物补贴。

Lee had to fight hard for his place on the expedition...: 李不得不为在考察队中获得一席之地而苦苦争取。

The two men fought a battle over land and water rights...: 这两个男人为土地和水的使用权发生了争斗。