(adj.) ready and able to resort to force or violence; 'pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance'- Herman Melville; 'they were rough and determined fighting men' .
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双语例句
They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
For Glaucon, who is always the most pugnacious of men, was dissatisfied at Thrasymachus' retirement; he wanted to have the battle out. 柏拉图.理想国.
Or if honour or victory or courage, in that case the judgment of the ambitious or pugnacious would be the truest? 柏拉图.理想国.