| 英语单词 | carnage |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['kɑːnɪdʒ] 美 ['kɑːrnɪdʒ] |
| 中文释义 | n.大屠杀;残杀 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The battlefield was a scene of utter carnage. (2) Imagine the carnage if they ever escaped their cages. (3) The ancient Rome battlefield was a scene of great carnage. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 战场完全是一片大屠杀的惨象。 (2) 想象一下它们一旦逃出铁笼后会出现的残杀景象! (3) 古罗马战场曾尸横遍地。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Carnage is mass murder. If you have seen news footage of a village after a bomb has been detonated, you probably saw a scene of carnage. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Carnage comes from the Latin carnaticum, meaning "flesh" or "slaughter of animals." Carnage is often used to describe the brutal killing of many people, but can also refer to large numbers of animals that have been butchered. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](尤指战争中的)屠杀,残杀 Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war. [LITERARY 文]
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