5PHRASE [VERB inflects](在打架或事故中)受伤 If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident. (在打架或事故中)受伤 [informal]
Ben has also been in the wars. He is still in plaster after breaking a leg.
本也受了伤。他摔断了一条腿,现在还打着石膏。
6PHRASE 开战;打仗 If a country goes to war, it starts fighting a war. 开战;打仗
Do you think this crisis can be settled without going to war?
你认为这场危机能和平解决吗?
7PHRASE 论战;口水战 If two people, countries, or organizations have a war of words, they criticize each other because they strongly disagree about something. 论战;口水战 [journalism] [Also + between]
Animal rights activists have been engaged in an increasingly bitter war of words with many of the nation's zoos. [+ with]
War is nothing but the continuation of politics by other meansKarl von ClausewitzOn War
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshedMao ZedongOn Protracted War
There was never a good war, or a bad peaceBenjamin Franklin
War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor readingThomas HardyThe Dynasts
He that makes a good war makes a good peaceGeorge HerbertOutlandish Proverbs
O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?Elizabeth SmartNecessary Secrets
For what can war but endless war still breed?John MiltonSonnet, On the Lord General Fairfax
Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry, The subject of it is War, and the Pity of War. The Poetry is in the PityWilfred OwenPoems (preface)
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popularOscar WildeThe Critic as Artist
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losersNeville Chamberlain
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military menGeorges Clemenceau
War is like love, it always finds a wayBertolt BrechtMother Courage and Her Children
It is easier to make war than to make peaceGeorges Clemenceau
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every manThomas HobbesLeviathan
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happenEnoch Powellspeech to the Conservative Party Conference
Let slip the dogs of warWilliam ShakespeareJulius Caesar
War is the trade of kingsJohn DrydenKing Arthur
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose itGeorge OrwellShooting an Elephant
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will comeCarl Sandburg`The People, Yes'
Since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructedConstitution of UNESCO
The next war will be fought with atom bombs and the one after that with spearsHarold Urey
A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each endpacifist slogan
Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginityanti-war graffiti
War will cease when men refuse to fightpacifist slogan
After each war there is a little less democracy to saveBrooks AtkinsonOnce Around the Sun
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself againAllen GinsbergThe Fall of America
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any moreErnest HemingwayMen Without Women
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a combJorge Luis Borges