conflict

英 ['kɒnflɪkt] 美 ['kɑnflɪkt]

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※ 提供单词"conflict"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

conflict 冲突

con-, 强调。-flict, 鞭子，击打，词源同flagellate(鞭笞), afflict.

conflict: conflict: see profligate
conflict (v.): early 15c., from Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere "to strike together, be in conflict," from com- "together" (see com-) + fligere "to strike" (see afflict). Related: Conflicted; conflicting.
conflict (n.): early 15c., "armed encounter, battle," from Old French conflit and directly from Latin conflictus (see conflict (v.)). Meaning "struggle, quarrel" is from mid-15c. Psychological sense of "incompatible urges in one person" is from 1859 (hence conflicted, past participle adjective). Phrase conflict of interest was in use by 1743.

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1. The ethnic populations are so intermingled that there's bound to be conflict.: 各民族人口如此杂居，肯定会发生冲突。

2. This was a straight conflict of directly opposed aims.: 这是完全对立的目标之间的正面冲突。

4. He has attempted to find a peaceful solution to the Ossetian conflict.: 他试图寻求和平解决奥赛梯冲突的方案。