Assassination
[əˌsæsɪˈneɪʃn] or [əˌsæsəˈneɪʃn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Murder (by secret assault).
手打:丽塔
例句/造句/用法:
- Three burglaries, two forgeries, and a midnight assassination. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There was the constant attempt to approximate the conditions of successful assassination that accompanied the demolition. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I was trusted with the secret of Colonel Herncastle's plan for escaping assassination. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Shortly after Edison's arrival at Cincinnati came the close of the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I thought that you did not believe in political assassination. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He liked to force them to betray a certain fear, which made them alike falter in resolve and recoil in action--the fear, simply, of assassination. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He had kept the Diamond, in flat defiance of assassination, in India. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I leave others to draw their own conclusions in reference to the secret of the assassination as I have drawn mine. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But I still believe that political assassination can be said to be practised very extensively. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Those bombs at Los Angeles, assassination and terrorism, are compounded of courage, indignation and ignorance. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Could the man Weller, in a moment of remorse, have divulged some secret conspiracy for his assassination? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Be this as it may, Mr. Lincoln's assassination was particularly unfortunate for the entire nation. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- His story, with its constant assassinations and executions, reads rather like the history of some savage chief than of a civilized monarch. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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