flare-up

英 [ˈfleər ʌp]

美 [ˈfler ʌp]

n.  (怒气、激烈情绪等的)爆发; 突发; (尤指)复发; 骤燃; 突然发出火焰

复数：flare-ups　

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• （怒气、激烈情绪等的）爆发
  a sudden expression of angry or violent feeling
  1. a flare-up of tension between the two sides
     双方剑拔弩张
• 突发；（尤指）复发
  a sudden painful attack, especially after a period without any problems or pain
• 骤燃；突然发出火焰
  the fact of a fire suddenly starting to burn again more strongly than before
  1. a flare-up of the bushfires
     林区大火的猛燃

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (暴乱或疾病的)突发，突然加剧，突然恶化
  If there is aflare-upof violence or of an illness, it suddenly starts or gets worse.
  1. There's been a flare-up of violence in South Africa.
     南非暴力冲突突然加剧。
  2. ...a flare-up in her arthritis.
     她的关节炎突然加重

英英释义

noun

• a sudden intense happening
  1. an outburst of heavy rain
  2. a burst of lightning
  Synonym:outburstburst

双语例句

• And in the early hours of yesterday, the Chechen capital, Grozny, was shaken by an attack by gunmen that left at least 10 dead and raised the spectre of another flare-up of the conflict in the North Caucasus republic that Mr Putin prides himself in subduing.
  周四凌晨，车臣首府格罗兹尼发生枪击事件，导致至少10人死亡，突显这个北高加索共和国再度爆发冲突的风险，普京曾自豪地宣称他平定了车臣。
• There's been a flare-up of violence in South Africa.
  南非暴力冲突突然加剧。
• China objected to the name changes, and America, anxious to avoid a flare-up between Beijing and Taipei, also discouraged them.
  中国反对去中国化，美国出于避免北京和台北的关系紧张也不赞成。
• For the central bank, the timing of the latest flare-up was, in a way, convenient.
  交易商称，对于欧洲中央银行来说，在某种程度上，最近突然干预市场的时机是恰当的。
• Some 60 firefighters and six trucks remained at the site to battle any flare-up, the fire brigade said.
  消防队说现在还有60多名消防队员和6辆卡车坚守在火场以应战任何突发的火势。
• The market has forced the Europeans to act over that time through a myriad of scares in the bond and equity markets, with the latest flare-up sending stocks tumbling in August and September.
  期间，市场多次迫使欧洲在一连串的债市和股市恐慌中采取行动，最近一次市场恐慌导致8、9月份股市大跌。
• Some researchers have even come to see the current outbreak as a flare-up in an ongoing pandemic era that started when the first H1N1 emerged in1918.
  一些研究者甚至逐渐开始认为，当前肆虐的疫情乃是持续不断的流感大流行时代的一次突然爆发，而1918年HIN1第一次浮现世间正是这一时代的元年。
• But on her arrival in Hanoi, the US Secretary of state found herself in the midst of a flare-up in smouldering Sino-Japanese relations that eclipsed the rest of the summit.
  但在抵达河内之际，这位美国国务卿发现自己恰逢中日矛盾死灰复燃，这使得峰会的其它一切黯然失色。
• Indians in Uganda, however, seem confident that this month's flare-up was an exception, not the rule.
  然而在乌干达的印度人看上去还是坚信本月的冲突只是个例外，并非普遍现象。
• Footage from state TV showed several vehicles on fire and protesters throwing petrol bombs at security forces in the latest sectarian flare-up in the country.
  国家电视台录下的视频显示，在该国最近的这次宗派冲突中，几辆汽车被烧，抗议者向安全部队投掷汽油弹。