汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 大動干戈
大動干戈 (大动干戈)
to go to war (idiom) / to make a big fuss over sth
War on a large scale / Acting like a big fan
干戈古代的两种武器。大规模地进行战争。比喻大张声势地行事。
dà/dài () dòng () gàn/gān
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

两个部落因边界之争而大动干戈

The two tribes got into a fight over a border dispute.

这并不一定是要你大动干戈地全面改变自己的生活。

This doesn’t necessarily have to involve full-on, life changing, epic events.

农村一些人甚至会为了抢夺一座风水好的坟墓而大动干戈

Some people in the countryside would even fight for a tomb with good 'feng shui'.

这也并不是说要大动干戈,只需简单的一些变化就能收效甚大。

This does not necessarily require a major overhaul. Simple changes can make all the difference.

⊙、男人与老婆吵架时往往大动干戈,女人与老公吵架时往往哭骂无常。

Man and wife quarrel often interdependent, a woman with a husband quarrel often cry to scold.

我们不得不大动干戈,但最终在IDE编辑器上得到的性能飞跃值得我们的投入。

We had to really fight with it, but the performance leap that we achieved in the IDE editor is definitely worth all those efforts.

换位思考,如果美国受到这样的挑衅,恐怕早就大动干戈,武力收回被侵占岛礁了。

Stand in China's shoes for a moment, if it was the US who was challenged with such provocation, it would have long resorted to force to recover the illegally occupied islands and reefs.

舒尔茨即将发现对于一家公司大动干戈地将权力交给顾客的做法是否可行。

Mr Schultz is about to discover whether they are possible for a company that has made such a fuss about giving power to its customers.

1969年中苏两国因边境冲突大动干戈,中美伙伴关系最初是建立在双方共同对抗苏联基础之上的。

At first this was based on a Shared antagonism towards the Soviet Union, which China had fought in border clashes in 1969.

在过去两年中,来自华东科技大学经济学专业,20岁的梁宇就常常在圣诞前夕同女友大动干戈

For the last two years, Liang Yu, a 20-year-old economics major at East China University of Science and Technology, has had big fights with his girlfriend on Christmas Eve.