Definition of conflict in English:

conflict

noun ˈkɒnflɪktˈkɑnˌflɪkt

1A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
（尤指持久的）意见不一；争论
the eternal conflict between the sexes
两性间的永恒冲突。
mass noun doctors often come into conflict with politicians
医生常和政治家发生争执。
Example sentencesExamples
- The torture situation is an external conflict, a conflict between the subject and his tormentor.
- The battle symbolises the ongoing conflict between the universal forces of creation and destruction.
- This is a battle over the right to call this conflict a conflict between two peoples: one that is oppressed, and the other that is denying them their right to be free.
- My own present church was a church plant more or less birthed after a period of bitter and protracted conflict between the pastor and some board members at his former church.
- I think there is serious conflict between science and most religions.
- But, over time, this control diminished, spurring the conflict between the old and new leadership out into the open.
- In fact the conflict is so serious as to make the evidence of a witness retained on that basis inherently suspect and perhaps even valueless.
- With a square conflict between two federal appeals courts, the secret hearing issue appears ripe for Supreme Court resolution.
- Over the next few years there would emerge the most serious conflict between the judiciary and the executive that has ever occurred in Australian history.
- But it is not right for the president to make such a remark openly because it has already given rise to a serious conflict among politicians and has had ill effects.
- There is a real conflict between the industrial and political wings of the labour movement.
- At the root of the culture war is a conflict between theism and atheism
- The problems with Wi-Fi Hotspots are symptomatic of the fundamental conflict between the cellular phone industry and the rest of our society and economy.
- In conclusion, I turn to other, more recent expressions of the conflict between the two cultures.
- At present, the reform agenda had been derailed by the protracted conflict between the government and the legislative body, he said.
- Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism.
- In the past the discussion was always about the conflict between the industry minister and the education minister.
- This conflict is like a conflict between two sons in a family.
- Japan is then in the throes of a conflict between rich industrialists keen on quickly modernising the nation and the samurai clans trying to retain the old order.
- We see the toll in the conflict between nurses and physicians when there is disagreement about the goals of care.
Synonyms
dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension
discord, friction, strife, antagonism, antipathy, ill will, bad blood, hostility, falling-out, disputation, contention
clash, altercation, shouting match, exchange, war of words
tussle, fracas, affray, wrangle, tangle, passage of/at arms, battle royal, feud, schism
1. 1.1 A prolonged armed struggle.
  （长期的）武装斗争，战争；武装冲突
  regional conflicts
  地区性武装冲突。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This will probably also be characteristic of armed conflicts and local wars in any strategic sectors.
  The communication system should ensure reliable and effective command and control of troops in the course of an armed conflict.
  More than 300,000 child soldiers are fighting in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries worldwide.
  Here are some articles from the Geneva Convention that deal with the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
  It should impose martial law or state of emergency in the zones of armed conflicts and antiterrorism operations.
  A public conference next week will look at reconciliation and rebuilding after serious conflicts.
  This author believes that the problem of employing the Navy in local wars and armed conflicts needs further study.
  An analysis of the local wars and armed conflicts suggests that air force invariably defeated air defense forces.
  Fighting in an armed conflict does not constitute murder, or aiding an ‘enemy’.
  This theory does rely upon a swift resolution, and a prolonged conflict would have an equally opposite and negative reaction to the rebound in the global economy and stock markets.
  The perception of the lineup and balance of forces and the character of future armed conflicts is beginning to change.
  A prolonged conflict would drive up gasoline and other prices, which would add to the cost of transporting most products.
  It is even harder to hope for success in military actions on a larger scale, like an armed conflict escalating into a local war.
  For millennia, Earth had served as an arena, the battleground for an unrelenting conflict between the forces of heaven and hell.
  I see perhaps a protracted conflict against various terrorist organizations and nations that harbor them.
  Australia was not born of a blood-soaked conflict or struggle to be free from oppression.
  Yet the world does need to see and understand its armed conflicts.
  For the remainder of 1899, the war was a conventional conflict between the American and Republican armies.
  The recent local wars and armed conflicts taught us to pay special attention to the paratroopers' armaments.
  More than a million people were displaced during the armed conflict.
  Synonyms
  war, armed conflict, action, military action, campaign, battle, fighting, fight, (armed) confrontation, (armed) clash, engagement, encounter, (armed) struggle, hostilities
  warfare, warring, combat, strife
  informal set-to, scrap
  archaic rencounter
2. 1.2mass noun A state of mind in which a person experiences a clash of opposing feelings or needs.
  （相反愿望或需要的）冲突，矛盾
  bewildered by her own inner conflict, she could only stand there feeling vulnerable
  她为自己内心的冲突所困惑，只能站在那里，感到脆弱无助。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was a positive correlation between conflict and depression, anxiety, and stress.
  Anxiety, frustration and conflict are a part of life and will cause children some psychological problems at one time or another.
  To experience conflict with a therapist and learn to resolve it is often the path out of depression.
  These issues were salient in the lives of these teens and were conducive to both the exploration of alternatives and the experience of conflict.
  The goal of their study was to test a model of the relationships between time, conflict and psychological distress.
3. 1.3 A serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests.
  （两种或两种以上意见、原则或利益的）冲突，抵触
  there was a conflict between his business and domestic life
  他的生意和家庭生活之间起了冲突。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The conflict between the respective positions creates a serious issue which, in my view, can be determined properly only after a trial.
  The artificial conflict between formalist art with its hermetic integrity and content art with its higher purpose of social change seems to be evoked.
  Of course, as I reported a couple of weeks ago, the board has a serious conflict of interest on its hands.
  Mike was experiencing a serious conflict between his own deeply held beliefs and a blooming awareness that the real world might not conform to those beliefs after all.
  And that is too heavy a reliance on commission-based payments, on payments that introduce a conflict of interest.
  It also questions whether there is a conflict of interest if the administrators become involved in the much-rumoured management buy-out.
  Even now, insiders fear the application will be called in by the Executive because of a potential conflict of interest at the council in its role as planning authority.
  But mothers are faced with a tragic conflict of interest that no amount of wishful thinking or social engineering or wilful blindness can resolve.
  The evolution versus creation controversy is really a conflict between two histories of death.
  This world is one in which there is a conflict between historical culture, the impulses of the individual body and the intensities of inner experience.
  It's just one of the difficult ways that they have to confront the conflict between the rights of the defendant and national security.
  The deep linking controversy highlights a fundamental conflict between community and commerce.
  The entire subject would become a conflict of interest.
  For me, all fantasy writing is specifically about one conflict, the conflict between the way we think the world is and the way we feel it ought to be.
  Indeed, we could probably argue that their existing costs were already too high, and that takes us back to a ministerial conflict of interest.
  For the very same people to firstly decide on that and then be the principal beneficiaries of its policies and money is a serious conflict of interest.
  Directors who are aware of a conflict of interest in any proposed contract are required to draw it to the attention of the board, but may thereafter take part in any vote on the matter.
  The conflict between this culture and their background isn't explored clearly.
  The last, for instance, explores the conflict between cultural traditions and powerful assimilative tendencies.
  Unless we control the conflict between profit and health, the number of uninsured and under served will continue to grow.
  Synonyms
  clash, incompatibility, incongruity, lack of congruence, friction, opposition, mismatch, variance, difference, divergence, contradiction, inconsistency, discrepancy, divided loyalties

verb kənˈflɪktˈkɑnˌflɪkt

[no object]

1Be incompatible or at variance; clash.
相左；冲突，抵触
parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict
有时父母和孩子的兴趣互相抵触。
the date for the match conflicted with a religious festival
比赛日期与一个宗教节日冲突。
Example sentencesExamples
- The rising expectations of all classes conflicted with the need to reduce government expenditure.
- What he instilled in students was responsibility for, and courage in, our own ideas, even when they conflicted with his own.
- The proposals also conflicted with the national park's Local Plan policies which protect conservation areas.
- The effect of alcohol on fertility is not clear as the results of studies are conflicting.
- There were also conflicting reports about the reasons for the suspect's arrest.
- The judge held that the development manifestly conflicted with the allocation of land in the development plan.
- However the two fundamental rights must not be seen as inherently conflicting.
- On the basis of existing trials, such a trial would be ethical because present evidence is conflicting.
- National guidance derived from the records of multiple organisations was conflicting.
- I think it is incredibly difficult for teenagers who are bombarded with conflicting messages.
- In order to reconcile these two conflicting beliefs, we would have to seek the truth.
- She should not have been treated using a local anaesthetic because it conflicted with drugs she was using for hernia and heart problems.
- This later evidence conflicted with known global migration data, and the materials were sent to four independent labs for dating.
- This would, of course, have conflicted with church services and Sunday worship.
- Their explanations, however, still conflicted with some documents written at the time.
- Many people strongly opposed the idea of evolution because it conflicted with their religious convictions.
- Abortion rights activists said it conflicted with three decades of Supreme Court precedent.
- Here, we should not assume that economic interests necessarily conflicted with love interests.
- I auditioned but had to withdraw because it conflicted with my photo contract.
- They maintained the case had not been made for the court, which conflicted with the protection of human rights and a liberal democracy.
Synonyms
clash, be incompatible, be inconsistent, be incongruous, be in opposition, be at variance, vary, be at odds, be in conflict, come into conflict, differ, diverge, disagree, contrast, collide
contradictory, incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable, incongruous, contrary, opposite, opposing, opposed, antithetical, clashing, discordant, differing, different, divergent, discrepant, varying, disagreeing, contrasting
at odds, in opposition, at variance
rare oppugnant
1. 1.1as adjective conflicted Having or showing confused and mutually inconsistent feelings.
  〈北美〉（感觉）相互矛盾的，困惑的
  he remains a little conflicted about Marlene
  他对玛琳的感觉仍然有点矛盾。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But back then, the social conservatives were an emerging force with conflicted roots.
  The result is an intellectual portrait of a complex, conflicted man.
  The most conflicted and pessimistic families were least likely to move to a new conversational level.
  While the conflicted desires of women have created some of this tension, society sends its own mixed signals.
  This is obviously a desperate attempt at rational thought by a deeply conflicted individual.
  It was wonderful to see her, of course, so I feel terrible about being so conflicted and ungenerous.
  His was a large presence, and his course, again, ran through conflicted times.
  To be fair, the vice president faced a conflicted public opinion environment.
  His conflicted expression is suddenly interrupted by a flash of levity.
  Her home was in Virginia; however, she had to remain silent about her conflicted feelings.
  It is these qualities we need to understand if we are to make sense of this conflicted representation of New York.
  A greater number of conflicted couples reported being childless than other types of couples.
  The play itself offers a conflicted examination of some of these issues surrounding the status of performance.
  Consequently, we seldom talk about or even allow ourselves to be conscious of our conflicted feelings.
  He is so disturbed by his conflicted feelings that he attacks the castle.
  But it is the natural imagery that makes this conflicted love poem so memorable.
  The entire middle part of the film is devoted to the couple's conflicted struggle to save him.
  She made a conflicted plea bargain in the case and received a stiff twenty-year to life sentence.
  But of course Aristotle does not mean that a conflicted person has more than one faculty of reason.
  As a result, more intensive intervention is recommended for the conflicted couples.

Derivatives

conflictual

adjective kənˈflɪktʃʊəlkənˈflɪk(t)ʃ(əw)əl

Characterized by conflict or disagreement.
he had a conflictual relationship with his stepfather
Example sentencesExamples
- highly conflictual local politics
- If doctors assume the role of social worker, politician or even policeman, their relations with patients are likely to become more authoritarian and conflictual.
- The two unions also have had a troubled - sometimes cooperative, sometimes conflictual - relationship in several other states on organizing both home childcare and healthcare workers.
- Through intense and often conflictual negotiations among neighbourhood representatives, these delegates list priorities for each type of capital expenditure such as basic sanitation, street paving and parks.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin conflict- 'struck together, fought', from the verb confligere, from con- 'together' + fligere 'to strike'; the noun is via Latin conflictus 'a contest'.

Conflict is from Latin conflict- ‘struck together, fought’, from the verb confligere, from con- ‘together’ and fligere ‘to strike’.

Rhymes

addict, afflict, constrict, contradict, convict, delict, depict, evict, hand-picked, inflict, interdict, Pict, predict, reconvict, strict

Definition of conflict in US English:

conflict

nounˈkɑnˌflɪkt

1A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.
（尤指持久的）意见不一；争论
the eternal conflict between the sexes
两性间的永恒冲突。
doctors often come into conflict with politicians
医生常和政治家发生争执。
Example sentencesExamples
- The torture situation is an external conflict, a conflict between the subject and his tormentor.
- Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism.
- In the past the discussion was always about the conflict between the industry minister and the education minister.
- With a square conflict between two federal appeals courts, the secret hearing issue appears ripe for Supreme Court resolution.
- In conclusion, I turn to other, more recent expressions of the conflict between the two cultures.
- The problems with Wi-Fi Hotspots are symptomatic of the fundamental conflict between the cellular phone industry and the rest of our society and economy.
- We see the toll in the conflict between nurses and physicians when there is disagreement about the goals of care.
- But, over time, this control diminished, spurring the conflict between the old and new leadership out into the open.
- Over the next few years there would emerge the most serious conflict between the judiciary and the executive that has ever occurred in Australian history.
- At the root of the culture war is a conflict between theism and atheism
- Japan is then in the throes of a conflict between rich industrialists keen on quickly modernising the nation and the samurai clans trying to retain the old order.
- But it is not right for the president to make such a remark openly because it has already given rise to a serious conflict among politicians and has had ill effects.
- There is a real conflict between the industrial and political wings of the labour movement.
- At present, the reform agenda had been derailed by the protracted conflict between the government and the legislative body, he said.
- The battle symbolises the ongoing conflict between the universal forces of creation and destruction.
- In fact the conflict is so serious as to make the evidence of a witness retained on that basis inherently suspect and perhaps even valueless.
- My own present church was a church plant more or less birthed after a period of bitter and protracted conflict between the pastor and some board members at his former church.
- This is a battle over the right to call this conflict a conflict between two peoples: one that is oppressed, and the other that is denying them their right to be free.
- This conflict is like a conflict between two sons in a family.
- I think there is serious conflict between science and most religions.
Synonyms
dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension
1. 1.1 A prolonged armed struggle.
  （长期的）武装斗争，战争；武装冲突
  overseas conflicts
  Example sentencesExamples
  A public conference next week will look at reconciliation and rebuilding after serious conflicts.
  It should impose martial law or state of emergency in the zones of armed conflicts and antiterrorism operations.
  This will probably also be characteristic of armed conflicts and local wars in any strategic sectors.
  A prolonged conflict would drive up gasoline and other prices, which would add to the cost of transporting most products.
  The recent local wars and armed conflicts taught us to pay special attention to the paratroopers' armaments.
  More than 300,000 child soldiers are fighting in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries worldwide.
  Fighting in an armed conflict does not constitute murder, or aiding an ‘enemy’.
  Here are some articles from the Geneva Convention that deal with the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.
  This theory does rely upon a swift resolution, and a prolonged conflict would have an equally opposite and negative reaction to the rebound in the global economy and stock markets.
  I see perhaps a protracted conflict against various terrorist organizations and nations that harbor them.
  This author believes that the problem of employing the Navy in local wars and armed conflicts needs further study.
  An analysis of the local wars and armed conflicts suggests that air force invariably defeated air defense forces.
  For the remainder of 1899, the war was a conventional conflict between the American and Republican armies.
  For millennia, Earth had served as an arena, the battleground for an unrelenting conflict between the forces of heaven and hell.
  More than a million people were displaced during the armed conflict.
  Yet the world does need to see and understand its armed conflicts.
  The perception of the lineup and balance of forces and the character of future armed conflicts is beginning to change.
  The communication system should ensure reliable and effective command and control of troops in the course of an armed conflict.
  Australia was not born of a blood-soaked conflict or struggle to be free from oppression.
  It is even harder to hope for success in military actions on a larger scale, like an armed conflict escalating into a local war.
  Synonyms
  war, armed conflict, action, military action, campaign, battle, fighting, fight, confrontation, armed confrontation, clash, armed clash, engagement, encounter, struggle, armed struggle, hostilities
2. 1.2 A condition in which a person experiences a clash of opposing wishes or needs.
  （相反愿望或需要的）冲突，矛盾
  Example sentencesExamples
  These issues were salient in the lives of these teens and were conducive to both the exploration of alternatives and the experience of conflict.
  To experience conflict with a therapist and learn to resolve it is often the path out of depression.
  There was a positive correlation between conflict and depression, anxiety, and stress.
  Anxiety, frustration and conflict are a part of life and will cause children some psychological problems at one time or another.
  The goal of their study was to test a model of the relationships between time, conflict and psychological distress.
3. 1.3 An incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests.
  （两种或两种以上意见、原则或利益的）冲突，抵触
  there was a conflict between his business and domestic life
  他的生意和家庭生活之间起了冲突。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's just one of the difficult ways that they have to confront the conflict between the rights of the defendant and national security.
  The conflict between the respective positions creates a serious issue which, in my view, can be determined properly only after a trial.
  It also questions whether there is a conflict of interest if the administrators become involved in the much-rumoured management buy-out.
  Mike was experiencing a serious conflict between his own deeply held beliefs and a blooming awareness that the real world might not conform to those beliefs after all.
  This world is one in which there is a conflict between historical culture, the impulses of the individual body and the intensities of inner experience.
  Indeed, we could probably argue that their existing costs were already too high, and that takes us back to a ministerial conflict of interest.
  But mothers are faced with a tragic conflict of interest that no amount of wishful thinking or social engineering or wilful blindness can resolve.
  Even now, insiders fear the application will be called in by the Executive because of a potential conflict of interest at the council in its role as planning authority.
  And that is too heavy a reliance on commission-based payments, on payments that introduce a conflict of interest.
  Unless we control the conflict between profit and health, the number of uninsured and under served will continue to grow.
  For me, all fantasy writing is specifically about one conflict, the conflict between the way we think the world is and the way we feel it ought to be.
  The evolution versus creation controversy is really a conflict between two histories of death.
  For the very same people to firstly decide on that and then be the principal beneficiaries of its policies and money is a serious conflict of interest.
  The conflict between this culture and their background isn't explored clearly.
  The artificial conflict between formalist art with its hermetic integrity and content art with its higher purpose of social change seems to be evoked.
  The deep linking controversy highlights a fundamental conflict between community and commerce.
  The last, for instance, explores the conflict between cultural traditions and powerful assimilative tendencies.
  Directors who are aware of a conflict of interest in any proposed contract are required to draw it to the attention of the board, but may thereafter take part in any vote on the matter.
  Of course, as I reported a couple of weeks ago, the board has a serious conflict of interest on its hands.
  The entire subject would become a conflict of interest.
  Synonyms
  clash, incompatibility, incongruity, lack of congruence, friction, opposition, mismatch, variance, difference, divergence, contradiction, inconsistency, discrepancy, divided loyalties

verbˈkɑnˌflɪkt

[no object]

1Be incompatible or at variance; clash.
相左；冲突，抵触
parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict
有时父母和孩子的兴趣互相抵触。
those tournament dates would have conflicted with Memorial Day
Example sentencesExamples
- They maintained the case had not been made for the court, which conflicted with the protection of human rights and a liberal democracy.
- On the basis of existing trials, such a trial would be ethical because present evidence is conflicting.
- Many people strongly opposed the idea of evolution because it conflicted with their religious convictions.
- I think it is incredibly difficult for teenagers who are bombarded with conflicting messages.
- Here, we should not assume that economic interests necessarily conflicted with love interests.
- She should not have been treated using a local anaesthetic because it conflicted with drugs she was using for hernia and heart problems.
- What he instilled in students was responsibility for, and courage in, our own ideas, even when they conflicted with his own.
- The rising expectations of all classes conflicted with the need to reduce government expenditure.
- This would, of course, have conflicted with church services and Sunday worship.
- In order to reconcile these two conflicting beliefs, we would have to seek the truth.
- I auditioned but had to withdraw because it conflicted with my photo contract.
- The judge held that the development manifestly conflicted with the allocation of land in the development plan.
- This later evidence conflicted with known global migration data, and the materials were sent to four independent labs for dating.
- However the two fundamental rights must not be seen as inherently conflicting.
- Abortion rights activists said it conflicted with three decades of Supreme Court precedent.
- There were also conflicting reports about the reasons for the suspect's arrest.
- The proposals also conflicted with the national park's Local Plan policies which protect conservation areas.
- National guidance derived from the records of multiple organisations was conflicting.
- The effect of alcohol on fertility is not clear as the results of studies are conflicting.
- Their explanations, however, still conflicted with some documents written at the time.
Synonyms
contradictory, incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable, incongruous, contrary, opposite, opposing, opposed, antithetical, clashing, discordant, differing, different, divergent, discrepant, varying, disagreeing, contrasting
clash, be incompatible, be inconsistent, be incongruous, be in opposition, be at variance, vary, be at odds, be in conflict, come into conflict, differ, diverge, disagree, contrast, collide
1. 1.1as adjective conflicted Having or showing confused and mutually inconsistent feelings.
  〈北美〉（感觉）相互矛盾的，困惑的
  my feelings are so conflicted that I hardly know how to answer
  Example sentencesExamples
  The play itself offers a conflicted examination of some of these issues surrounding the status of performance.
  The most conflicted and pessimistic families were least likely to move to a new conversational level.
  She made a conflicted plea bargain in the case and received a stiff twenty-year to life sentence.
  Consequently, we seldom talk about or even allow ourselves to be conscious of our conflicted feelings.
  He is so disturbed by his conflicted feelings that he attacks the castle.
  While the conflicted desires of women have created some of this tension, society sends its own mixed signals.
  It was wonderful to see her, of course, so I feel terrible about being so conflicted and ungenerous.
  His was a large presence, and his course, again, ran through conflicted times.
  The entire middle part of the film is devoted to the couple's conflicted struggle to save him.
  But of course Aristotle does not mean that a conflicted person has more than one faculty of reason.
  To be fair, the vice president faced a conflicted public opinion environment.
  But back then, the social conservatives were an emerging force with conflicted roots.
  But it is the natural imagery that makes this conflicted love poem so memorable.
  The result is an intellectual portrait of a complex, conflicted man.
  As a result, more intensive intervention is recommended for the conflicted couples.
  Her home was in Virginia; however, she had to remain silent about her conflicted feelings.
  It is these qualities we need to understand if we are to make sense of this conflicted representation of New York.
  A greater number of conflicted couples reported being childless than other types of couples.
  This is obviously a desperate attempt at rational thought by a deeply conflicted individual.
  His conflicted expression is suddenly interrupted by a flash of levity.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin conflict- ‘struck together, fought’, from the verb confligere, from con- ‘together’ + fligere ‘to strike’; the noun is via Latin conflictus ‘a contest’.

单词	conflict
释义	Definition of conflict in English: conflict noun ˈkɒnflɪktˈkɑnˌflɪkt 1A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. （尤指持久的）意见不一；争论 the eternal conflict between the sexes 两性间的永恒冲突。 mass noun doctors often come into conflict with politicians 医生常和政治家发生争执。 Example sentencesExamples The torture situation is an external conflict, a conflict between the subject and his tormentor. The battle symbolises the ongoing conflict between the universal forces of creation and destruction. This is a battle over the right to call this conflict a conflict between two peoples: one that is oppressed, and the other that is denying them their right to be free. My own present church was a church plant more or less birthed after a period of bitter and protracted conflict between the pastor and some board members at his former church. I think there is serious conflict between science and most religions. But, over time, this control diminished, spurring the conflict between the old and new leadership out into the open. In fact the conflict is so serious as to make the evidence of a witness retained on that basis inherently suspect and perhaps even valueless. With a square conflict between two federal appeals courts, the secret hearing issue appears ripe for Supreme Court resolution. Over the next few years there would emerge the most serious conflict between the judiciary and the executive that has ever occurred in Australian history. But it is not right for the president to make such a remark openly because it has already given rise to a serious conflict among politicians and has had ill effects. There is a real conflict between the industrial and political wings of the labour movement. At the root of the culture war is a conflict between theism and atheism The problems with Wi-Fi Hotspots are symptomatic of the fundamental conflict between the cellular phone industry and the rest of our society and economy. In conclusion, I turn to other, more recent expressions of the conflict between the two cultures. At present, the reform agenda had been derailed by the protracted conflict between the government and the legislative body, he said. Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism. In the past the discussion was always about the conflict between the industry minister and the education minister. This conflict is like a conflict between two sons in a family. Japan is then in the throes of a conflict between rich industrialists keen on quickly modernising the nation and the samurai clans trying to retain the old order. We see the toll in the conflict between nurses and physicians when there is disagreement about the goals of care. Synonyms dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension discord, friction, strife, antagonism, antipathy, ill will, bad blood, hostility, falling-out, disputation, contention clash, altercation, shouting match, exchange, war of words tussle, fracas, affray, wrangle, tangle, passage of/at arms, battle royal, feud, schism 1.1 A prolonged armed struggle. （长期的）武装斗争，战争；武装冲突 regional conflicts 地区性武装冲突。 Example sentencesExamples This will probably also be characteristic of armed conflicts and local wars in any strategic sectors. The communication system should ensure reliable and effective command and control of troops in the course of an armed conflict. More than 300,000 child soldiers are fighting in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries worldwide. Here are some articles from the Geneva Convention that deal with the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. It should impose martial law or state of emergency in the zones of armed conflicts and antiterrorism operations. A public conference next week will look at reconciliation and rebuilding after serious conflicts. This author believes that the problem of employing the Navy in local wars and armed conflicts needs further study. An analysis of the local wars and armed conflicts suggests that air force invariably defeated air defense forces. Fighting in an armed conflict does not constitute murder, or aiding an ‘enemy’. This theory does rely upon a swift resolution, and a prolonged conflict would have an equally opposite and negative reaction to the rebound in the global economy and stock markets. The perception of the lineup and balance of forces and the character of future armed conflicts is beginning to change. A prolonged conflict would drive up gasoline and other prices, which would add to the cost of transporting most products. It is even harder to hope for success in military actions on a larger scale, like an armed conflict escalating into a local war. For millennia, Earth had served as an arena, the battleground for an unrelenting conflict between the forces of heaven and hell. I see perhaps a protracted conflict against various terrorist organizations and nations that harbor them. Australia was not born of a blood-soaked conflict or struggle to be free from oppression. Yet the world does need to see and understand its armed conflicts. For the remainder of 1899, the war was a conventional conflict between the American and Republican armies. The recent local wars and armed conflicts taught us to pay special attention to the paratroopers' armaments. More than a million people were displaced during the armed conflict. Synonyms war, armed conflict, action, military action, campaign, battle, fighting, fight, (armed) confrontation, (armed) clash, engagement, encounter, (armed) struggle, hostilities warfare, warring, combat, strife informal set-to, scrap archaic rencounter 1.2mass noun A state of mind in which a person experiences a clash of opposing feelings or needs. （相反愿望或需要的）冲突，矛盾 bewildered by her own inner conflict, she could only stand there feeling vulnerable 她为自己内心的冲突所困惑，只能站在那里，感到脆弱无助。 Example sentencesExamples There was a positive correlation between conflict and depression, anxiety, and stress. Anxiety, frustration and conflict are a part of life and will cause children some psychological problems at one time or another. To experience conflict with a therapist and learn to resolve it is often the path out of depression. These issues were salient in the lives of these teens and were conducive to both the exploration of alternatives and the experience of conflict. The goal of their study was to test a model of the relationships between time, conflict and psychological distress. 1.3 A serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests. （两种或两种以上意见、原则或利益的）冲突，抵触 there was a conflict between his business and domestic life 他的生意和家庭生活之间起了冲突。 Example sentencesExamples The conflict between the respective positions creates a serious issue which, in my view, can be determined properly only after a trial. The artificial conflict between formalist art with its hermetic integrity and content art with its higher purpose of social change seems to be evoked. Of course, as I reported a couple of weeks ago, the board has a serious conflict of interest on its hands. Mike was experiencing a serious conflict between his own deeply held beliefs and a blooming awareness that the real world might not conform to those beliefs after all. And that is too heavy a reliance on commission-based payments, on payments that introduce a conflict of interest. It also questions whether there is a conflict of interest if the administrators become involved in the much-rumoured management buy-out. Even now, insiders fear the application will be called in by the Executive because of a potential conflict of interest at the council in its role as planning authority. But mothers are faced with a tragic conflict of interest that no amount of wishful thinking or social engineering or wilful blindness can resolve. The evolution versus creation controversy is really a conflict between two histories of death. This world is one in which there is a conflict between historical culture, the impulses of the individual body and the intensities of inner experience. It's just one of the difficult ways that they have to confront the conflict between the rights of the defendant and national security. The deep linking controversy highlights a fundamental conflict between community and commerce. The entire subject would become a conflict of interest. For me, all fantasy writing is specifically about one conflict, the conflict between the way we think the world is and the way we feel it ought to be. Indeed, we could probably argue that their existing costs were already too high, and that takes us back to a ministerial conflict of interest. For the very same people to firstly decide on that and then be the principal beneficiaries of its policies and money is a serious conflict of interest. Directors who are aware of a conflict of interest in any proposed contract are required to draw it to the attention of the board, but may thereafter take part in any vote on the matter. The conflict between this culture and their background isn't explored clearly. The last, for instance, explores the conflict between cultural traditions and powerful assimilative tendencies. Unless we control the conflict between profit and health, the number of uninsured and under served will continue to grow. Synonyms clash, incompatibility, incongruity, lack of congruence, friction, opposition, mismatch, variance, difference, divergence, contradiction, inconsistency, discrepancy, divided loyalties verb kənˈflɪktˈkɑnˌflɪkt [no object] 1Be incompatible or at variance; clash. 相左；冲突，抵触 parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict 有时父母和孩子的兴趣互相抵触。 the date for the match conflicted with a religious festival 比赛日期与一个宗教节日冲突。 Example sentencesExamples The rising expectations of all classes conflicted with the need to reduce government expenditure. What he instilled in students was responsibility for, and courage in, our own ideas, even when they conflicted with his own. The proposals also conflicted with the national park's Local Plan policies which protect conservation areas. The effect of alcohol on fertility is not clear as the results of studies are conflicting. There were also conflicting reports about the reasons for the suspect's arrest. The judge held that the development manifestly conflicted with the allocation of land in the development plan. However the two fundamental rights must not be seen as inherently conflicting. On the basis of existing trials, such a trial would be ethical because present evidence is conflicting. National guidance derived from the records of multiple organisations was conflicting. I think it is incredibly difficult for teenagers who are bombarded with conflicting messages. In order to reconcile these two conflicting beliefs, we would have to seek the truth. She should not have been treated using a local anaesthetic because it conflicted with drugs she was using for hernia and heart problems. This later evidence conflicted with known global migration data, and the materials were sent to four independent labs for dating. This would, of course, have conflicted with church services and Sunday worship. Their explanations, however, still conflicted with some documents written at the time. Many people strongly opposed the idea of evolution because it conflicted with their religious convictions. Abortion rights activists said it conflicted with three decades of Supreme Court precedent. Here, we should not assume that economic interests necessarily conflicted with love interests. I auditioned but had to withdraw because it conflicted with my photo contract. They maintained the case had not been made for the court, which conflicted with the protection of human rights and a liberal democracy. Synonyms clash, be incompatible, be inconsistent, be incongruous, be in opposition, be at variance, vary, be at odds, be in conflict, come into conflict, differ, diverge, disagree, contrast, collide contradictory, incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable, incongruous, contrary, opposite, opposing, opposed, antithetical, clashing, discordant, differing, different, divergent, discrepant, varying, disagreeing, contrasting at odds, in opposition, at variance rare oppugnant 1.1as adjective conflicted Having or showing confused and mutually inconsistent feelings. 〈北美〉（感觉）相互矛盾的，困惑的 he remains a little conflicted about Marlene 他对玛琳的感觉仍然有点矛盾。 Example sentencesExamples But back then, the social conservatives were an emerging force with conflicted roots. The result is an intellectual portrait of a complex, conflicted man. The most conflicted and pessimistic families were least likely to move to a new conversational level. While the conflicted desires of women have created some of this tension, society sends its own mixed signals. This is obviously a desperate attempt at rational thought by a deeply conflicted individual. It was wonderful to see her, of course, so I feel terrible about being so conflicted and ungenerous. His was a large presence, and his course, again, ran through conflicted times. To be fair, the vice president faced a conflicted public opinion environment. His conflicted expression is suddenly interrupted by a flash of levity. Her home was in Virginia; however, she had to remain silent about her conflicted feelings. It is these qualities we need to understand if we are to make sense of this conflicted representation of New York. A greater number of conflicted couples reported being childless than other types of couples. The play itself offers a conflicted examination of some of these issues surrounding the status of performance. Consequently, we seldom talk about or even allow ourselves to be conscious of our conflicted feelings. He is so disturbed by his conflicted feelings that he attacks the castle. But it is the natural imagery that makes this conflicted love poem so memorable. The entire middle part of the film is devoted to the couple's conflicted struggle to save him. She made a conflicted plea bargain in the case and received a stiff twenty-year to life sentence. But of course Aristotle does not mean that a conflicted person has more than one faculty of reason. As a result, more intensive intervention is recommended for the conflicted couples. Derivatives conflictual adjective kənˈflɪktʃʊəlkənˈflɪk(t)ʃ(əw)əl Characterized by conflict or disagreement. he had a conflictual relationship with his stepfather Example sentencesExamples highly conflictual local politics If doctors assume the role of social worker, politician or even policeman, their relations with patients are likely to become more authoritarian and conflictual. The two unions also have had a troubled - sometimes cooperative, sometimes conflictual - relationship in several other states on organizing both home childcare and healthcare workers. Through intense and often conflictual negotiations among neighbourhood representatives, these delegates list priorities for each type of capital expenditure such as basic sanitation, street paving and parks. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin conflict- 'struck together, fought', from the verb confligere, from con- 'together' + fligere 'to strike'; the noun is via Latin conflictus 'a contest'. Conflict is from Latin conflict- ‘struck together, fought’, from the verb confligere, from con- ‘together’ and fligere ‘to strike’. Rhymes addict, afflict, constrict, contradict, convict, delict, depict, evict, hand-picked, inflict, interdict, Pict, predict, reconvict, strict Definition of conflict in US English: conflict nounˈkɑnˌflɪkt 1A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. （尤指持久的）意见不一；争论 the eternal conflict between the sexes 两性间的永恒冲突。 doctors often come into conflict with politicians 医生常和政治家发生争执。 Example sentencesExamples The torture situation is an external conflict, a conflict between the subject and his tormentor. Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism. In the past the discussion was always about the conflict between the industry minister and the education minister. With a square conflict between two federal appeals courts, the secret hearing issue appears ripe for Supreme Court resolution. In conclusion, I turn to other, more recent expressions of the conflict between the two cultures. The problems with Wi-Fi Hotspots are symptomatic of the fundamental conflict between the cellular phone industry and the rest of our society and economy. We see the toll in the conflict between nurses and physicians when there is disagreement about the goals of care. But, over time, this control diminished, spurring the conflict between the old and new leadership out into the open. Over the next few years there would emerge the most serious conflict between the judiciary and the executive that has ever occurred in Australian history. At the root of the culture war is a conflict between theism and atheism Japan is then in the throes of a conflict between rich industrialists keen on quickly modernising the nation and the samurai clans trying to retain the old order. But it is not right for the president to make such a remark openly because it has already given rise to a serious conflict among politicians and has had ill effects. There is a real conflict between the industrial and political wings of the labour movement. At present, the reform agenda had been derailed by the protracted conflict between the government and the legislative body, he said. The battle symbolises the ongoing conflict between the universal forces of creation and destruction. In fact the conflict is so serious as to make the evidence of a witness retained on that basis inherently suspect and perhaps even valueless. My own present church was a church plant more or less birthed after a period of bitter and protracted conflict between the pastor and some board members at his former church. This is a battle over the right to call this conflict a conflict between two peoples: one that is oppressed, and the other that is denying them their right to be free. This conflict is like a conflict between two sons in a family. I think there is serious conflict between science and most religions. Synonyms dispute, quarrel, squabble, disagreement, difference of opinion, dissension 1.1 A prolonged armed struggle. （长期的）武装斗争，战争；武装冲突 overseas conflicts Example sentencesExamples A public conference next week will look at reconciliation and rebuilding after serious conflicts. It should impose martial law or state of emergency in the zones of armed conflicts and antiterrorism operations. This will probably also be characteristic of armed conflicts and local wars in any strategic sectors. A prolonged conflict would drive up gasoline and other prices, which would add to the cost of transporting most products. The recent local wars and armed conflicts taught us to pay special attention to the paratroopers' armaments. More than 300,000 child soldiers are fighting in armed conflicts in more than thirty countries worldwide. Fighting in an armed conflict does not constitute murder, or aiding an ‘enemy’. Here are some articles from the Geneva Convention that deal with the protection of civilians in armed conflicts. This theory does rely upon a swift resolution, and a prolonged conflict would have an equally opposite and negative reaction to the rebound in the global economy and stock markets. I see perhaps a protracted conflict against various terrorist organizations and nations that harbor them. This author believes that the problem of employing the Navy in local wars and armed conflicts needs further study. An analysis of the local wars and armed conflicts suggests that air force invariably defeated air defense forces. For the remainder of 1899, the war was a conventional conflict between the American and Republican armies. For millennia, Earth had served as an arena, the battleground for an unrelenting conflict between the forces of heaven and hell. More than a million people were displaced during the armed conflict. Yet the world does need to see and understand its armed conflicts. The perception of the lineup and balance of forces and the character of future armed conflicts is beginning to change. The communication system should ensure reliable and effective command and control of troops in the course of an armed conflict. Australia was not born of a blood-soaked conflict or struggle to be free from oppression. It is even harder to hope for success in military actions on a larger scale, like an armed conflict escalating into a local war. Synonyms war, armed conflict, action, military action, campaign, battle, fighting, fight, confrontation, armed confrontation, clash, armed clash, engagement, encounter, struggle, armed struggle, hostilities 1.2 A condition in which a person experiences a clash of opposing wishes or needs. （相反愿望或需要的）冲突，矛盾 Example sentencesExamples These issues were salient in the lives of these teens and were conducive to both the exploration of alternatives and the experience of conflict. To experience conflict with a therapist and learn to resolve it is often the path out of depression. There was a positive correlation between conflict and depression, anxiety, and stress. Anxiety, frustration and conflict are a part of life and will cause children some psychological problems at one time or another. The goal of their study was to test a model of the relationships between time, conflict and psychological distress. 1.3 An incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests. （两种或两种以上意见、原则或利益的）冲突，抵触 there was a conflict between his business and domestic life 他的生意和家庭生活之间起了冲突。 Example sentencesExamples It's just one of the difficult ways that they have to confront the conflict between the rights of the defendant and national security. The conflict between the respective positions creates a serious issue which, in my view, can be determined properly only after a trial. It also questions whether there is a conflict of interest if the administrators become involved in the much-rumoured management buy-out. Mike was experiencing a serious conflict between his own deeply held beliefs and a blooming awareness that the real world might not conform to those beliefs after all. This world is one in which there is a conflict between historical culture, the impulses of the individual body and the intensities of inner experience. Indeed, we could probably argue that their existing costs were already too high, and that takes us back to a ministerial conflict of interest. But mothers are faced with a tragic conflict of interest that no amount of wishful thinking or social engineering or wilful blindness can resolve. Even now, insiders fear the application will be called in by the Executive because of a potential conflict of interest at the council in its role as planning authority. And that is too heavy a reliance on commission-based payments, on payments that introduce a conflict of interest. Unless we control the conflict between profit and health, the number of uninsured and under served will continue to grow. For me, all fantasy writing is specifically about one conflict, the conflict between the way we think the world is and the way we feel it ought to be. The evolution versus creation controversy is really a conflict between two histories of death. For the very same people to firstly decide on that and then be the principal beneficiaries of its policies and money is a serious conflict of interest. The conflict between this culture and their background isn't explored clearly. The artificial conflict between formalist art with its hermetic integrity and content art with its higher purpose of social change seems to be evoked. The deep linking controversy highlights a fundamental conflict between community and commerce. The last, for instance, explores the conflict between cultural traditions and powerful assimilative tendencies. Directors who are aware of a conflict of interest in any proposed contract are required to draw it to the attention of the board, but may thereafter take part in any vote on the matter. Of course, as I reported a couple of weeks ago, the board has a serious conflict of interest on its hands. The entire subject would become a conflict of interest. Synonyms clash, incompatibility, incongruity, lack of congruence, friction, opposition, mismatch, variance, difference, divergence, contradiction, inconsistency, discrepancy, divided loyalties verbˈkɑnˌflɪkt [no object] 1Be incompatible or at variance; clash. 相左；冲突，抵触 parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict 有时父母和孩子的兴趣互相抵触。 those tournament dates would have conflicted with Memorial Day Example sentencesExamples They maintained the case had not been made for the court, which conflicted with the protection of human rights and a liberal democracy. On the basis of existing trials, such a trial would be ethical because present evidence is conflicting. Many people strongly opposed the idea of evolution because it conflicted with their religious convictions. I think it is incredibly difficult for teenagers who are bombarded with conflicting messages. Here, we should not assume that economic interests necessarily conflicted with love interests. She should not have been treated using a local anaesthetic because it conflicted with drugs she was using for hernia and heart problems. What he instilled in students was responsibility for, and courage in, our own ideas, even when they conflicted with his own. The rising expectations of all classes conflicted with the need to reduce government expenditure. This would, of course, have conflicted with church services and Sunday worship. In order to reconcile these two conflicting beliefs, we would have to seek the truth. I auditioned but had to withdraw because it conflicted with my photo contract. The judge held that the development manifestly conflicted with the allocation of land in the development plan. This later evidence conflicted with known global migration data, and the materials were sent to four independent labs for dating. However the two fundamental rights must not be seen as inherently conflicting. Abortion rights activists said it conflicted with three decades of Supreme Court precedent. There were also conflicting reports about the reasons for the suspect's arrest. The proposals also conflicted with the national park's Local Plan policies which protect conservation areas. National guidance derived from the records of multiple organisations was conflicting. The effect of alcohol on fertility is not clear as the results of studies are conflicting. Their explanations, however, still conflicted with some documents written at the time. Synonyms contradictory, incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable, incongruous, contrary, opposite, opposing, opposed, antithetical, clashing, discordant, differing, different, divergent, discrepant, varying, disagreeing, contrasting clash, be incompatible, be inconsistent, be incongruous, be in opposition, be at variance, vary, be at odds, be in conflict, come into conflict, differ, diverge, disagree, contrast, collide 1.1as adjective conflicted Having or showing confused and mutually inconsistent feelings. 〈北美〉（感觉）相互矛盾的，困惑的 my feelings are so conflicted that I hardly know how to answer Example sentencesExamples The play itself offers a conflicted examination of some of these issues surrounding the status of performance. The most conflicted and pessimistic families were least likely to move to a new conversational level. She made a conflicted plea bargain in the case and received a stiff twenty-year to life sentence. Consequently, we seldom talk about or even allow ourselves to be conscious of our conflicted feelings. He is so disturbed by his conflicted feelings that he attacks the castle. While the conflicted desires of women have created some of this tension, society sends its own mixed signals. It was wonderful to see her, of course, so I feel terrible about being so conflicted and ungenerous. His was a large presence, and his course, again, ran through conflicted times. The entire middle part of the film is devoted to the couple's conflicted struggle to save him. But of course Aristotle does not mean that a conflicted person has more than one faculty of reason. To be fair, the vice president faced a conflicted public opinion environment. But back then, the social conservatives were an emerging force with conflicted roots. But it is the natural imagery that makes this conflicted love poem so memorable. The result is an intellectual portrait of a complex, conflicted man. As a result, more intensive intervention is recommended for the conflicted couples. Her home was in Virginia; however, she had to remain silent about her conflicted feelings. It is these qualities we need to understand if we are to make sense of this conflicted representation of New York. A greater number of conflicted couples reported being childless than other types of couples. This is obviously a desperate attempt at rational thought by a deeply conflicted individual. His conflicted expression is suddenly interrupted by a flash of levity. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin conflict- ‘struck together, fought’, from the verb confligere, from con- ‘together’ + fligere ‘to strike’; the noun is via Latin conflictus ‘a contest’.
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