| 释义 |
Examples:war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters—National protection war or Campaign defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor—Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war—called Port Arthur during Russian occupation and Russian-Japanese war of 1905—fire beacons on all sides (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war—Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948—lit. sandpiper and clam war together (and the fisherman catches both, idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out a third party—Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain—New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)—fire of war everywhere (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war—Korean war (dating from North Korean invasion on 25th Jun 1950)—Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces—there can never be too much deception in war—Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War—cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war—Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria (1863-1914), heir the Hapsburg throne, whose assassination in Sarajevo led to World War I—Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War—The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction—Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922)—war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945)—Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning—Yan'an prefecture level city in Shaanxi, communist headquarters during the war—Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945—Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), leading French general and commander-in-chief of allied forces in the latter stages of World War One—preparations for war are in an advanced state—the Arrow incident of 1856 (used as pretext for the second Opium War)—(arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war—major political event (war or change of regime)—provisional capital of a country (e.g. in time of war)—Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator—Yasukuni Shrine, Shintō shrine in Tōkyō Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals—lit. sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out a third party— |