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at loggerheads

对立,冲突

at loggerheads这个词组出自航海用语。loggerhead是一种船上用的长柄杓子,水手可用来盛柏油,放在火上烧, 熔化后可以补船体裂缝等。
两艘船若是在水上起冲突,水手常会用loggerhead盛烧 灯的柏油,掷向对方的船上,作为攻击武器。所以,at loggerheads这个词组引申为「对立、冲突」的意思。

[It] sometimes seems to me that some in the West pretend to be more enthusiastic about German unification than they really are. They even hope to use us to put a brake on unification,so that we will get the blame and end up at loggerheads with the Germans.(出自:TIME, Jun. 4,1990,p. 27)

我有时会觉得,有些西方国家对德国统一假装很热中,其实并不 支持。他们甚至希望利用我们来制止统一,让我们背上罪名,最 后和德国人对立。