ethnic/religious/civil etc strife• Meanwhile, political and ethnic strife in Bosnia have steadily mounted in the run-up to nationwide elections there on September 14.• Ethically, it is impossible to redistributeincome intentionally in a developing country to see if civil strifeerupts.• They blamed the republic's nationalisticcoalition government for the slide into civil strife.• His finalmodel of civil strife is depicted in Figure 5.1.• After a week of civil strife, Jerusalem itself was captured by the rebels.• For a considerable part of the intervening period there was recurrentcivil strife between magnate and dynastic factions.• Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.• But there were present all the ingredients of stasis, civil strife.
Originstrife
(1100-1200)Old Frenchestrif, probably from estriver; → STRIVE
ADJECTIVE | VERB + STRIFE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤internal內部衝突▸➤ethnic, factional, internecine, sectarian種族衝突;派系衝突;內訌;教派衝突▸➤civil, industrial, labour/labor, political, racial, religious, social內戰;勞資糾紛;政治紛爭;民族衝突;宗教衝突;社會衝突▸➤domestic, family, marital家庭糾紛;夫妻爭執VERB + STRIFE➤cause, create, foment導致/造成/挑起衝突▸➤be torn apart by, be torn by, experience因衝突而四分五裂;經歷紛爭◇The country has been torn apart by years of civil strife.這個國家被多年的內亂弄得四分五裂。➤end結束衝突PREPOSITION➤during the strife, in the strife在衝突期間;在衝突中◇He lost his job during last year's industrial strife.他在去年的勞資衝突中丟了工作。➤strife among, strife between⋯之中/⋯之間的衝突◇internecine strife among the nationalities of the region該地區各民族之間的紛爭PHRASES➤a time of strife衝突時期▸➤years of strife多年的紛爭◇years of strife and suffering多年的紛爭和苦難