bloodletting

1. N-UNCOUNT Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies. 血拼; 流血事件; 尤指敵對軍隊雙方的暴力或殺戮

Once again there's been ferocious bloodletting in the township. 鎮上再次發生了血腥殺戮事件。

2. N-UNCOUNT Journalists sometimes refer to a bitter quarrel between two groups of people from within the same organization as bloodletting. (同一個組織內部兩隊人馬之間發生的)互不相讓的激烈爭吵

Hopefully a satisfactory solution can be reached without much bloodletting. 希望不需要經過激烈的爭吵就可以達成令人滿意的解決方案。