strife /ˈstraɪf/
  爭吵,競爭,衝突
  Strife n.
  1. The act of striving; earnest endeavor. [Archaic]
  2. Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts.
     Doting about questions and strifes of words.   --1 Tim. vi. 4.
  Thus gods contended -- noble strife -
  Who most should ease the wants of life.   --Congreve.
  3. Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle.
     Twenty of them fought in this black strife.   --Shak.
  These vows, thus granted, raised a strife above
  Betwixt the god of war and queen of love.   --Dryden.
  4. That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] “Lamenting her unlucky strife.”
  Syn: -- Contest; struggle; quarrel. See Contention.
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  strife
       n 1: lack of agreement or harmony [syn: discord]
       2: bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension