fighter
/ˈfaɪtə(r)/noun
1
- a person or animal that fights, especially as a soldier or in sport打斗的人（或动物）; 战士; 拳击运动员。
1.1
- a person who does not easily admit defeat in spite of difficulties or opposition不轻易服输的人; 奋斗者; 好斗者：
there'll be months of physiotherapy but medical staff say she's a fighter.
将会有几个月的物理治疗, 但医务人员都说她是个坚强的人。
2
- a fast military aircraft designed for attacking other aircraft战斗机：
as modifier fighter pilots.战斗机飞行员。
WORD TRENDS
Labels are powerful things, carrying with them a great raft of associations and assumptions, and terrorist is one of the most inflammatory. Since the War on Terror was proclaimed in 2001 and wars were initiated in Iraq and Afghanistan, frequency of the word terrorist in the Oxford English Corpus peaked sharply but has now declined, whereas evidence for fighter, Insurgent, and militant, more neutral labels for non-governmental forces opposing Western troops, has steadily increased. However, the neutrality of fighter is a matter of debate: in the Corpus it is typically associated with such positive tags as liberation, heroic, and courageous. Such words are not attached to terrorist, which is far more likely to be linked to fanatical, dangerous, or deadly.