guerilla

1. w gu, -w- -gu-.
2. war => werr- (Old High German werra "war") => guerr- "war".
3. guerr- "war" + -illa (diminutive suffix).
4. literally "little war".
5. guerrilla => 简略形式、缩略形式、变体形式：guerilla.

guerilla

guerilla: [19] Etymologically, a guerilla is a ‘little war’. English acquired the word during the Peninsular War (1808–14) from Spanish guerrilla, which is a diminutive form of guerra ‘war’ (a word ultimately of Germanic origin, related to English war). In Spanish it still means ‘skirmish’, and until well into the 19th century it was used in English for a ‘war characterized by irregular skirmishing’ (the famous Times war correspondent William Russell, for instance, reported on 18 March 1862 that ‘Arkansas is now the theatre of a large guerilla’).

The first recorded use of the word in its present-day sense is by the Duke of Wellington, the British military commander in Spain, in a despatch of 1809: ‘I have recommended to the Junta to set the Guerillas to work towards Madrid’.
=> war

guerilla (n.)

common misspelling (now perhaps established as a variant) of guerrilla (q.v.); compare French guérilla.

1. It was the beginning of our armed guerilla struggle.

这是我们武装游击战的开端.

2. Small guerilla units were fighting behind enemy lines.

游击小分队在敌人后方作战.

3. The train is attacked by guerilla.

火车受到游击队的袭击.

4. What is a little brush between a guerilla band and a squadron of cavalry?

一支游击队和一支骑兵之间的一场小小遭遇战,算得了 什么 ?

5. Louis is also a graduate of Ann Monteith's Guerilla Marketing Workshop.

同时,他还是安·蒙迪斯的游击队市场工作室的毕业生.