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BELL comes from the Latin word meaning “war.” Bellona was the little-known Roman goddess of war; her husband, Mars, was the god of war.
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antebellum
英文释意：Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War (1861–65).
例句：When World War I was over, the French nobility found it impossible to return to their extravagant antebellum way of life.
知原由网其所以然：Even countries that win a war often end up worse off than they had been before, and the losers almost always do. So antebellum often summons up images of ease, elegance, and entertainment that disappeared in the postwar years. In the American South, the antebellum way of life depended on a social structure, based on slavery, that collapsed after the Civil War; Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind shows the nostalgia and bitterness felt by wealthy Southerners after the war more than the relief and anticipation experienced by those released from slavery. In Europe, World War I shattered the grand life of the upper classes, even in victorious France and Britain, and changed society hugely in the space of just four years.
bellicose
英文释意：Warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome.
例句：The more bellicose party always got elected whenever there was tension along the border and the public believed that military action would lead to security.
知其所以然：Since bellicose describes an attitude that hopes for actual war, the word is generally applied to nations and their leaders. In the 20th century, it was commonly used to describe such figures as Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm, Italy's Benito Mussolini, and Japan's General Tojo, leaders who believed their countries had everything to gain by starting wars. The international relations of a nation with a bellicose foreign policy tend to be stormy and difficult, and bellicosity usually makes the rest of the world very uneasy.
belligerence
英文释意：Aggressiveness, combativeness.
例句：The belligerence in Turner's voice told them that the warning was a serious threat.
知其所以然：Unlike bellicose and bellicosity, the word belligerence can be used at every level from the personal to the global. The belligerence of Marlon Brando's performances as the violent Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire electrified the country in the 1940s and原由网 '50s. At the same time, belligerent speeches by leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States throughout the Cold War were keeping the world on edge. Belligerent is even a noun; the terrible war in the Congo in recent years, for example, has involved seven nations as belligerents.
rebellion
英文释意：Open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a person or原由网 thing in authority.
例句：A student rebellion that afternoon in Room 13 resulted in the new substitute teache原由网r racing out of the building in tears.
知其所以然：Plenty of teenagers rebel against their parents in all kinds of ways. But a rebellion usually involves a group. Armed rebellions are usually put down by a country's armed forces, or at least kept from expanding beyond a small area. The American War of Independence was first viewed by the British as a minor rebellion that would soon run its course, but this particular rebellion led to a full-fledged revolution—that is, the overthrow of a government. Rebellion, armed or othGoCHNwpKBerwise, has often alerted those in power that those they control are very unhappy.
