英语单词 | massacre |
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英美音标 | 英 ['mæsəkə(r)] 美 ['mæsəkər] |
中文释义 | n.大屠杀;<口>惨败 v.大屠杀;<口>彻底击败 |
英语例句 | (1) The press has reported the massacre of thousands of people for their religious beliefs. (2) The game was a complete massacre; we lost 10-0. (3) Vichy government was the accessory of Nazi to massacre the Jews who lived in France. (4) The hunters came from the East to massacre the buffaloes of the plains, killing several million in a short time. (5) He is collecting evidence to massacre his opponents. |
中文例句 | (1) 新闻界报道了那场因宗教信仰原因而对千万人的大屠杀。 (2) 那次比赛真是一次惨败,我们0比10输了。 (3) 维希政府是德国纳粹残害住在法国的犹太人的帮凶之一。 (4) 这批猎手从东部来到这片平原上大肆捕杀野牛,很快就有几百万只野牛惨遭杀戮。 (5) 他正在收集证据要彻底击败他的对手。 |
vocabulary简明 | A massacre is a big bloody mess of killing, and usually for no good reason. Not that there’s ever a good reason for killing, but massacres are especially pointless and gory. |
vocabulary扩展 | It’s unclear where the word massacre came from, but possibly it was the Old French word macacre, which means “slaughterhouse.” As a noun, massacre is a brutal slaughter of humans or animals, and it can be a verb as well, like when an army massacres an entire village of innocent people. Pronounce it like MASS-uh-ker, and remember to spell it with an acre at the end, which is how much land is needed to bury the bodies after a massacre. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]大屠杀;大残杀 A massacre is the killing of a large number of people at the same time in a violent and cruel way. →see usage note at:kill
2 [VERB 动词]大规模屠杀;大规模残杀 If people are massacred, a large number of them are attacked and killed in a violent and cruel way. [ [V n]
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