Flame War

基本解释

Operations managers question whether there is an appropriate ROI from having staff write about their day, annotate electronic news clips or get into a flame war.
经理们质疑，使员工去描述他们当天的经历、为网上的新闻作注释或者参与争吵是否有一个适宜的投资回报（ROI）。
It doesn’t take much prodding for the Mac vs. PC debate to transform into a violently passionate flame war, and my list would be incomplete without an example to represent the battle.
Mac与PC的论战并没有演变成多么惨烈的口水战，但是如果我的这个排行榜中少了这一战，那么就会显得很不全面。
A few days later, Rogan said that Kevin had sent an email apologizing for the exchange – for what it’s worth, though, it looks to me like both Joe and Kevin thoroughly enjoyed their little flame war.
几天后，罗根说凯文已经发了电子邮件向自己道歉了——为了那无聊的对骂。但在我看来不论是乔还是凯文都对他们之间的口水战乐在其中。

We'll be straight with you -- we're not looking to incite any sort of flame war with the above question.
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If you get in the business of deleting this or that, you can easily get in a flame war with the whole community.
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The flame war escalated.
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