Aid workers report that even the clan feuds that have plagued the strip are being toned down from gun battles to fisticuffs. 援助人员描述道,就连那些曾为祸加沙,从枪战到械斗的氏族冲突也已趋缓和。
fisticuffs
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a fight with bare fists
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fighting with the fists
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Over the years, the league management has justified the fisticuffs and brawling by claiming that such activity serves as an outlet for temper and frustration that might otherwise manifest themselves in ugly stickwork.
Less clear, but related, is the question of how the hubbub will affect the psyche of Tyson, the not-quite-22-year-old who is favored to win the coming fisticuffs.
But not all literary fisticuffs are profitable.
The mayoral campaign has taken on a Wild West aspect, with fisticuffs creating a new campaign slogan: the town just isn't big enough for the two of us.
He cannot resist fisticuffs with earlier biographers.