Assassin
[ə'sæsɪn] or [ə'sæsn]
解释:
(noun.) a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; 'his assassins were hunted down like animals'; 'assassinators of kings and emperors'.
(noun.) a member of a secret order of Muslims (founded in the 12th century) who terrorized and killed Christian Crusaders.
欧内斯特整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.
(v. t.) To assassinate.
布兰卡德录入
同义词及近义词：
n. Murderer, slayer, cut-throat, assassinator, bravo.
詹尼弗编辑
解释:
n. one who usually for a reward kills by surprise or secretly.—v.t. Assas′sinate to murder by surprise or secret assault: (Milton) to maltreat: also figuratively to destroy by treacherous means as a reputation.—n. (obs.) one who assassinates.—ns. Assassinā′tion secret murder; Assas′sinator.
埃塞雷德编辑
娱乐性解释：
If you are the one to receive the assassin's blow, you will not surmount all your trials. To see another, with the assassin standing over him with blood stains, portends that misfortune will come to the dreamer. To see an assassin under any condition is a warning that losses may befall you through secret enemies.
手打:列侬
例句:
- The thern can never tell from what dark shadow an assassin may spring upon his back. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Of the assassin, or assassins, nothing was known; they had escaped. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- But whether the assassin's dagger reached one fair bosom or another, only time will divulge. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Now, first of all, presuming that the assassin entered the house, how did he or she come in? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I had the conscience of an assassin, and was haunted by a vague sense of enormous wickedness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- There can be no question that this was snatched from the face or the person of the assassin. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Accursed assassin! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- An assassin does not come unarmed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Don't go to him, I called out of the window, he's an assassin! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- He felt that the family dignity was struck at by an assassin's hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Whatever Olympias may have done about her husband's assassin, history does not doubt about her treatment of her supplanter, Cleopatra. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Of the assassin, or assassins, nothing was known; they had escaped. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Carthoris, Kantos Kan, Tars Tarkas, Hor Vastus, and Xodar might even now be the victims of Zat Arras' assassins, or else his prisoners. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The consciousness that he hunted assassins was the spur in his high-mettled temper's flank. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- President of Assassins, cried Robespierre, I demand speech! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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