Noun:

1. a minor short-term fight

Verb:

1. engage in a skirmish

1.小规模战斗;接触战
Askirmish is a minor battle.

e.g. Border skirmishes between India and Pakistan were common.
印度和巴基斯坦边境上常常发生小规模战斗。

2.发生小冲突;进行小规模战斗;打斗
If peopleskirmish, they fight.

e.g. They were skirmishing close to the minefield now...
他们当时正在雷区附近交火。
e.g. Police skirmished with youths on the estate last Friday.
上周五警方与一些青年在住宅区发生了冲突。

skirmishing
On land there was minor skirmishing.
陆地上发生了小规模的战斗。

3.小争执;口角;争论;冲突
Askirmish is a short, sharp argument.

e.g. This difference in approach has led to several political skirmishes.
这种方式上的差异已经导致了几场政治冲突。

1. 小冲突：欧洲中古骑兵步兵战术 欧洲中古世纪的战争形态必须看时代与地域而定,但一般来说,在百年战争之前,战争的规模都极小,绝大部分都是领主之间的「小冲突(skirmish)」,既使是在十字军东征时,欧洲骑士也还是不喜欢列阵出击,

2. 小规模战斗：包括1988年发...但是,不论中国还是越南都不愿意看到两国的分歧在现有基础上进一步加深(deteriorate),更不用说(let alone)使之停留在1979年的水平了,当时两国之间发生了一次短期的边界战役[偶发性的小规模战斗(skirmish)持续到了80年代,

3. 散兵战：根据西洋人解释:战役(campaign)系由一个或一系列行动组成;某一地的交战被称为战斗(battle),战斗中的局部冲突被称为散兵战(skirmish). 中文的战役中的役 字,含义应是一次输役、一次兵役. <>中 役不再籍,粮不三载 就是这个意思.

• In the fierce skirmish that followed..two soldiers were killed.

  出自：C. Ryan

• A squadron skirmished with units of the Italian battle fleet.

  出自：D. A. Thomas

['u4e0d'u53ef'u6570'u540d'u8bcd]There are reports of skirmishing along the border.

有报道称在边界一带发生了小规模冲突。

Border skirmishes between India and Pakistan were common.

印度和巴基斯坦边境上常常发生小规模战斗。

They were skirmishing close to the minefield now...

他们当时正在雷区附近交火。

Police skirmished with youths on the estate last Friday.

上周五警方与一些青年在住宅区发生了冲突。

This difference in approach has led to several political skirmishes.

这种方式上的差异已经导致了几场政治冲突。

A conventional skirmish would escalate into a nuclear exchange.

传统的小规模战斗更有可能逐步升级为核战争.

So a skirmish could escalate into a war of mutual survival.

所以一场小小冲突也可能激化为双方余下的人员之间的战争.

The skirmish grew into a major battle.

小冲突扩大形成大战斗.

' There'll be just one brief skirmish and the Yankees will skedaddle back into Tennessee.

" 只要打一次小小的遭遇战,北方佬就会逃回田纳西去的.

There had been a skirmish in the half light of dawn.

天朦朦亮的时候曾经有过一场小规模的战斗.

You play like a lame camel. I am the skirmish master.

你像一个瘸腿的骆驼一样, 我才是战斗的大师.

She confessed that she had directed an attack, called in French a skirmish, before Paris.

她承认她在巴黎城前发起过进攻, 呼唤法国人投入战斗.

Surviving Abyssins defeated in the skirmish are usually assimilated into the victorious tribe.

失败部落的幸存者通常会被吸纳进战胜的一方.

A minor skirmish ensued as people fought over supplies.

由于争抢供给品而引发了一场小冲突.

The verbal skirmish is viewed as the opening round in negotiation schedules to start next Tuesday.

这场争论被看作预定下星期二举行的谈判的序幕.

Under regular circumstances these wouldn't be fouls but after a skirmish we wanted to regain control.

而在正常情况下,这些犯规都不是犯规,但是在一场小纠纷过后,我们需要恢复场上控制.

Guatemala was the first skirmish of the cold war in Latin America.

危地马拉是冷战在拉丁美洲的首个发生地.

We won a skirmish, and we'll win him some more.

我们打赢了一场小仗, 还要再给他打赢几仗.

This skirmish sparked a major battle.

这次小冲突激起了场大战斗.

When I got to the old Sullivan place there'd already been a skirmish with the Yankees.

当我到达老沙利文的地方时,他们已经到那的时候他们已经跟北佬们交过手了.

A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon . A war dragged on in Sudan.

以色列和黎巴嫩爆发了一场激烈的武装冲突.

' But it will not be. They will drive them out of Georgia in one skirmish. '

" 可实际上不至于如此. 他们只消打一个小仗就会把北军赶出 佐治亚 去.

Everybody but Toby enters into this skirmish.

除了托比外,全家人都投入了这场小冲突.

He was shot in a skirmish with the enemy.

他在与敌人的一次小冲突中被击中.