英和和英

名詞

guerilla (plural guerillas)

1. Obsolete spelling of guerrilla, now a misspelling.
   • 1819, Sydney Smith, “The Game Laws”, in Edinburgh Review:

     Not a cessation of poaching, but a succession of village guerillas;—an internecive war between the gamekeepers and marauders of game;—the whole country flung into brawls and convulsions, for the unjust and exorbitant pleasures of country gentlemen.

   • c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales‎, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62
   • 1873, M. A. Avery, “The Guerillas.—Death of Major Hunter.”, in The Rebel General’s Loyal Bride: A True Picture of Scenes in the Late Civil War‎, Springfield, Mass.: W. J. Holland and Company, →OCLC
   • 1912, Charles Egbert Craddoc (pseudonym of Mary Noailles Murfree), “The Crucial Moment” in The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories, Philadelphia: Lippincott
   • 1913–1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “England, My England”, in England My England and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published 24 October 1922, →OCLC, page 23:

     From mother and nurse it was a guerilla gunfire of commands, and blithe, quicksilver disobedience from the three blonde, never-still little girls.

   • 1938 August 24 [1938 August 21], “Japanese Round Up Guerillas”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume CCVIII, number 3707, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 316, column 4:

     At Fengsien, 45 kilometres due south of Shanghai, a Japanese force attacked a band of 400 guerillas at 4 a.m. on August 13, putting them to flight.

   • 1947, Yang Shuo, “Purge by Fire”, in Chi-chen Wang, editor, Stories of China at War‎, London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 71:

     He was telling Keng about the tactical agreement he had made with the guerillas in Muping and of his interviews with Shen Hung-lieh, chairman of the Shantung provincial government, when they suddenly heard a commotion outside. […]
     "Comrades," he said, "we are all guerilla soldiers who have joined hands to protect our own people, not to oppress them.

   • 1949, Tom Barry, Guerilla Days in Ireland
   • 1980, Konrad Ege, “U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan”, in CounterSpy‎, volume 4, number 1, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18:

     KYODO also states that, according to Indian intelligence sources, "the guerillas were sent from their training bases around Khasgar in Xingjiang Province [in China] to the sensitive areas bordering Afghanistan".

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:guerilla.