skirmish

英 ['skɜːmɪʃ] 美 ['skɝmɪʃ]

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skirmish 小冲突，小规模战斗

拼写俗化自古法语 escarmouche, 小规模战斗，来自意大利语 scaramuccia, 来自 Proto-Germanic*skerm,砍，劈，来自 PIE*sker,砍，劈，词源同 scar,shear.-ccia,小词后缀，含讽刺义，词源同 capoccia,小头领。

skirmish: skirmish: [14] English adapted skirmish from eskermiss-, the present stem of Old French eskermir ‘fight with a sword’. This in turn went back to a Frankish *skirmjan, a relative of modern German schirmen. A variant of skirmish arose with the i and r sounds reversed, giving scrimish, which is the source of modern English scrimmage [15] and also of scrummage [19] and its abbreviation scrum [19].
=> scrimmage, scrummage
skirmish (n.): late 14c., from Old French escarmouche "skirmish," from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio, probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German skirmen "to protect, defend"), with a diminutive or depreciatory suffix, from Proto-Germanic *skerm-, from PIE *(s)ker- (1) "to cut" (see shear (v.)).

Influenced in Middle English by a separate verb skirmysshen "to brandish a weapon," from Old French eskirmiss-, stem of eskirmir "to fence," from Frankish *skirmjan, from the same Germanic source. Compare scrimmage. Other modern Germanic forms have an additional diminutive affix: German scharmützel, Dutch schermutseling, Danish skjærmydsel. Skirmish-line attested by 1864.
skirmish (v.): c. 1200, from Old French escarmouchier, from Italian scaramucciare (see skirmish (n.)). Related: Skirmished; skirmishing.

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1. There had been a skirmish in the half light of dawn.: 天朦朦亮的时候曾经有过一场小规模的战斗.

2. The verbal skirmish is viewed as the opening round in negotiation schedules to start next Tuesday.: 这场争论被看作预定下星期二举行的谈判的序幕.

3. A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.: 传统的小规模战斗更有可能逐步升级为核战争.