英语单词 | homicide |
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英美音标 | 英 ['hɒmɪsaɪd] 美 ['hɑːmɪsaɪd] |
中文释义 | n.杀人;杀人者 |
英语例句 | (1) He has been charged with homicide. (2) Chicago set the homicide record. |
中文例句 | (1) 他被控告杀人。 (2) 芝加哥的杀人罪案创下了纪录。 |
vocabulary简明 | The noun homicide means a murder. If you kill another person, you are committing a homicide. The level of the homicide is legally defined as murder if the act was intentional and as manslaughter if it was unintentional. |
vocabulary扩展 | Remember the meaning of homicide by remembering that cide, from the Latin cida, refers to killing, while the Latin homo means "man.” So homicide means “killing a man.” You can see another example in this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide — that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life — are alike forbidden.” |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]凶杀;杀人 Homicide is the illegal killing of a person. [mainly AM 主美]
in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用murder |
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