This was not the sort of thing country boys did when they played at fisticuffs and Jack was furious

这不是乡下小伙子斗殴时的那种搞法，杰克火冒三丈了。

||1:The opposition, which has just one-fifth of the seats against the grand coalition’s four-fifths, wants to change the format to make it more like Westminster, with direct questioning of the chancellor and her ministers.||2:Unthinkable, for that would make politics a “show”, counters Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, the largest party.||3:(Mr Lammert is also a Christian Democrat, but the Bundestag is his focus of loyalty.||4:) So here is a modest proposal: if witty repartee is out of the question, why not take a leaf out of the Ukrainian or Italian parliament’s book and go straight to the fisticuffs .

||1:仅占五分之一席位的反对党来反对五分之四的大联盟，这五分之一希望能改变议会形式使之更像威斯敏斯特，可以更直接的向总理和部长提问。||2:这个情形难以想象，因为这将使政治变成了一场“作秀”来抵制默克尔领导的最大党派基民盟。||3:（拉默特也是基民盟党员，但是议会才是他效忠的重心。||4:）因此得出了一个小小的建议：若已不能理智对话，为何不效仿乌克兰和意大利，亮出拳头一决雌雄。

For me though, hassle means more inconvenience than fisticuffs and I seem to be supported in this by most of the dictionaries I checked.

不过对我而言，hassle比用拳头解决问题可要困难复杂多了。我查的大多数词典似乎都印证了我的看法。

On Determination of Intentional Injury Crime at Group Fisticuffs

群殴事件中故意伤害罪的认定问题

AS MOST parents know, boys are more likely than girls to use fisticuffs to sort out disputes.

如许多父母知道的那样，男孩比女孩更可能使用拳头解决冲突。

I do not choose to engage in fisticuffs with you.

我可不想和你动拳头打架。

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。

Never in his 50 years of drunken fisticuffs did McHugh express any creativity.

在酒后大打出手的50年里，麦克休从来没有表现出任何创造力。

come to fisticuffs

打起架来