tug of war

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtʌɡ əv ˌwɔː/    美 /ˈtʌɡ əv ˌwɔɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams.
    — [Gordon Burn:] You told me you had tugs-of-war with your sisters over small, common-or-garden, apparently insignificant household things, things that you felt meant more to you than the others.
  2. A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute. idiomatic
    — To sum up, the dynamics of a "tug-of-war" between the supporters and opponents of the powerful and independent constitutional court dispel the traditional version of judicial empowerment as a struggle between “prostrong Court” reformers and antistrong Court” reactionaries.

词形变化

tugs of war plural tug of wars plural tug-of-war alternative
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