bloodletting

柯林斯詞典

1. N-UNCOUNT Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies. 血拼; 流血事件; 尤指敵對(duì)軍隊(duì)雙方的暴力或殺戮
Once again there's been ferocious bloodletting in the township. 鎮(zhèn)上再次發(fā)生了血腥殺戮事件。
2. N-UNCOUNT Journalists sometimes refer to a bitter quarrel between two groups of people from within the same organization as bloodletting. (同一個(gè)組織內(nèi)部?jī)申?duì)人馬之間發(fā)生的)互不相讓的激烈爭(zhēng)吵
Hopefully a satisfactory solution can be reached without much bloodletting. 希望不需要經(jīng)過激烈的爭(zhēng)吵就可以達(dá)成令人滿意的解決方案。