逼自己（也希望大家一起）學完韋氏字根詞典（4）——BELL
BELL comes from the Latin word meaning 「war.」 Bellona was the little-known Roman goddess of war; her husband, Mars, was the god of war.來自於拉丁語，意為「戰爭」。Bellona是羅馬女戰神；她的丈夫「Mars」是戰神
antebellum Existing before a war, especially before the American Civil War (1861–65).
? When World War I was over, the French nobility found it impossible to return to their extravagant antebellum way of life.
Even countries that win a war often end up worse off than they had been before, and the losers almost always do. So antebellum often summons up images of ease, elegance, and entertainment that disappeared in the postwar years. In the American South, the antebellum way of life depended on a social structure, based on slavery, that collapsed after the Civil War; Margaret Mitchells Gone with the Wind shows the nostalgia and bitterness felt by wealthy Southerners after the war more than the relief and anticipation experienced by those released from slavery. In Europe, World War I shattered the grand life of the upper classes, even in victorious France and Britain, and changed society hugely in the space of just four years.
bellicose Warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome.
? The more bellicose party always got elected whenever there was tension along the border and the public believed that military action would lead to security.
Since bellicose describes an attitude（態度） that hopes for actual war, the word is generally applied to nations and their leaders（通常適用於國家和其領導人）. In the 20th century, it was commonly used to describe such figures as Germanys Kaiser Wilhelm, Italys Benito Mussolini, and Japans General Tojo, leaders who believed their countries had everything to gain by starting wars. The international relations of a nation with a bellicose foreign policy tend to be stormy and difficult, and bellicosity usually makes the rest of the world very uneasy.
belligerence Aggressiveness, combativeness.
? The belligerence in Turners voice told them that the warning was a serious threat.
Unlike bellicose and bellicosity, the word belligerence can be used at every level from the personal to the global（適用性比bellicose、bellicosity都強，啥都能用）. The belligerence of Marlon Brandos performances as the violent Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire electrified the country in the 1940s and 50s. At the same time, belligerent（可名詞、可形容詞） speeches by leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States throughout the Cold War were keeping the world on edge. Belligerent is even a noun; the terrible war in the Congo in recent years, for example, has involved seven nations as belligerents.
rebellion Open defiance and opposition, sometimes armed, to a person or thing in authority.
? A student rebellion that afternoon in Room 13 resulted in the new substitute teacher racing out of the building in tears.
Plenty of teenagers rebel against their parents in all kinds of ways. But a rebellion usually involves a group. Armed rebellions are usually put down by a countrys armed forces, or at least kept from expanding beyond a small area. The American War of Independence was first viewed by the British as a minor rebellion that would soon run its course, but this particular rebellion led to a full-fledged revolution—that is, the overthrow of a government. Rebellion, armed or otherwise, has often alerted those in power that those they control are very unhappy.
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