Massacre
['mæsəkə] or ['mæsəkɚ]
解释:
(verb.) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; 'The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda'.
克拉拉录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.
(n.) Murder.
(n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.
手打:莉莎
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Butcher (human beings), murder, kill, slay, slaughter.
n. Butchery, slaughter, carnage.
校对:索尼亚
解释:
n. indiscriminate slaughter esp. with cruelty: carnage.—v.t. to kill with violence and cruelty: to slaughter.
卡拉校对
例句:
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- I believe that we could make a massacre. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I would like to have the massacre here and the bridge, too. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I am averse to useless massacre. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- And in spite of raid and massacre they were just as invincible because they had the pressure of numbers and a strong avenging government behind them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Irish Catholics had made a massacre of the Protestant English in Ireland, and now Cromwell suppressed the Irish insurrection with great vigour. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their indubitable curiosity and zest for learning. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There are set-backs, massacres, pestilence; but the story is, on the whole, one of enlargement. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The Turks adopted violent repressive measures, and embarked upon massacres of Bulgarians on an enormous scale. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- All the massacres of Hulagu and Timurlane were as nothing to this. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They had probably been drifting about Western Asia for some centuries before the massacres of Timurlane drove them over the Hellespont. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They are massacring all within the amphitheatre. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- I read of men concerned in public affairs governing or massacring their species. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Who knows but what we might be better employed putting the town into a state of defense than massacring people with this slowness and brutality. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Every breathing creature within the walls was massacred. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The enemy main battle then broke and was massacred. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- They were massacred. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Alva murdered, sacked, and massacred--in vain. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He then razed the castle to the ground, massacred the family and moved on. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The Emperor Dessalines, come to power in 1804, massacred all the whites on the island. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- He gained a victory at Jaffa, and, being short of provisions, _massacred all his prisoners_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
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