| 英语单词 | assassination |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [əˌsæsɪ'neɪʃn] 美 [əˌsæsɪ'neɪʃn] |
| 中文释义 | n.暗杀 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The press disclosed an assassination attempt. (2) I saw the assassination and it got under my skin. (3) The President's assassination led to political convulsion. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 报界披露了一暗杀企图。 (2) 我亲眼看见暗杀的情景，真令我毛骨悚然。 (3) 总统遇刺引起了政治骚乱。 |
| vocabulary简明 | An assassination is the murder of a public figure. Assassinations are usually politically motivated. If someone kills your dog, that’s not an assassination, that’s just murder (unless your dog was running for mayor). |
| vocabulary扩展 | A murder is the unjust, illegal killing of someone. An assassination is a type of murder in which the victim is someone well known, usually in the world of politics. The killings of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinations: their purpose was to destabilize the government and hurt the civil rights movement, respectively. As assassination is murder plus politics. |
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