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conflict

/verb kuhn-flikt; noun kon-flikt/US // verb kənˈflɪkt; noun ˈkɒn flɪkt //

冲突,矛盾,冲突问题,矛盾冲突

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
    • : to fight or contend; do battle.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle; strife.
    • : controversy; quarrel: conflicts between parties.
    • : discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles: a conflict of ideas.
    • : a striking together; collision.
    • : incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another: a conflict in the schedule.
    • : Psychiatry. a mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundisagreement, discord
Forms: conflicted, conflicting, conflicts
verbbe at odds
Forms: conflicted, conflicting, conflicts

Examples

  • In immigration court, she claimed that she feared returning to Cameroon, a place that she has never called home, and where there is ongoing conflict between the state and anglophone separatists.

  • Justice has repeatedly said his role as governor poses no conflict, and he wants nothing from the state for his businesses or his family.

  • But, Liebman said, the logic that supported withholding documents doesn’t apply to the current fight because this one centers on allegations of conflicts of interest.

  • A conflict over which electors should count would only exacerbate those concerns.

  • That does not necessarily suggest that Russia plans to expand or accelerate attacks, but it may indicate that the Kremlin sees the current intensive confrontation … as a prelude to an inevitable conflict.

  • In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.

  • Their claims have led to both academic controversy and localized conflict.

  • The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.

  • World War II is still a long way off, but the seeds of conflict are already being sown on the continent.

  • So here we are with Abbas being the only one of three parties to this conflict still fighting for a two-state solution.

  • He must trust to his human merits, and not miracles, for his Sonship is of no value in this conflict.

  • The conflict in Tom's puzzled heart sharpened that evening into dreadful edges that cut him mercilessly whichever way he turned.

  • In her he felt again, more distinctly than before, another person—division, conflict.

  • The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.

  • Battle of Surcoign; British defeated by the French after a sanguinary conflict.