1·The president was in a pugnacious mood when he spoke to journalists about the rebellion.
总统在和记者们讲到造反行为时展现出了好斗的情绪。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·But attack ads can backfire on the firms that make them, just as they sometimes do on pugnacious politicians.
然而,攻击性广告可能会让做广告的公司搬起石头砸了自己的脚,正如攻击性广告对好斗的政客所产生的影响一样。
3·THE white-tailed kite cruising over the coastal grassland at Stratford Point is feeling pugnacious.
这种经常在斯特拉福特点沿海地区的草地上游弋的带有白色尾部的鸢感觉起来是好斗的。
4·Those votes recast his image from pugnacious anti-tax conservative to big-spending establishment Republican.
对布什的支持见证了他从一个好斗的反增税保守主义者向一个花钱不眨眼的共和党当权派的转变。
5·AT a company meeting last year, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's pugnacious boss, spied an employee taking a photo on an Apple iPhone.
去年的一次公司会议上,微软好斗的老板史蒂夫·鲍尔默发现一名职员正在用苹果公司的iPhone拍照。
1·Richard Holbrooke, the pugnacious career diplomat who brokered the Dayton peace accords in the Balkans, will probably get the Pakistan-Afghanistan portfolio.
好战的职业外交家理查德。赫尔布鲁克曾经在巴尔干地区经营了代顿和平协议,他很可能将负责巴阿问题;