| 正面 | 12179.attrition 英 [ə'trɪʃ(ə)n]美 [ə'trɪʃən]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： Attrition：我捶甚。我努力的捶，用力的捶----消磨，磨损。谐音“我擦损”。n. 摩擦；磨损；消耗 例句： 1. It was a war of attrition .这是一场消耗战。 attrition 磨损前缀at-同ad-. -tri,同turn, 转，磨。 attuned 适应的 前缀at-同ad-. tune, 曲调。指舞曲一致。 attritionattrition: see throwattrition (n.)1540s, "abrasion, a scraping," from Latin attritionem (nominative attritio), literally "a rubbing against," noun of action from past participle stem of atterere "to wear, rub away," figuratively "to destroy, waste," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + terere "to rub" (see throw (v.)). The earliest sense in English is from Scholastic theology (late 14c.), "sorrow for sin merely out of fear of punishment," a minor irritation, and thus less than contrition. The sense of "wearing down of military strength" is a World War I coinage (1914). Figurative use by 1930." |