guerrilla
英 [gə'rɪlə]
美 [gə'rɪlə]
CET6+ TEM4
1. w <----> gu, -w- <---> -gu-.
2. war => werr- (Old High German werra "war") => guerr- "war".
3. guerr- "war" + -illa (diminutive suffix).
4. literally "little war".
- guerrilla (n.)
- "fighter in an irregular, independent armed force," 1809, from Spanish guerrilla "body of skirmishers, skirmishing warfare," literally "little war," diminutive of guerra "war," from a Germanic source cognate with Old High German werra "strife, conflict, war," from Proto-Germanic *werra- (see war (n.)). Acquired by English during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), when bands of Spanish peasants and shepherds annoyed the occupying French. Purists failed in their attempt to keep this word restricted to "irregular warfare" and prevent it taking on the sense properly belonging to guerrillero "guerrilla fighter." Figurative use by 1861. As an adjective from 1811.
- 1. The security zone was set up to prevent guerrilla infiltrations.
- 设立了安全区以防止游击队员的渗入。
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- 2. A guerrilla war has lingered into its fourth decade.
- 一场游击战已经持续了30多年。
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- 3. He dismissed guerrilla warfare as "adventurism."
- 他对游击战嗤之以鼻，认为那是一种“冒险主义”。
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- 4. Guerrilla groups are active in the province.
- 游击队在该省很活跃。
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- 5. These villagers are guerrilla sympathizers.
- 这些村民拥护游击队。
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