Massacre
['mæsəkə] or ['mæsəkɚ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; 'The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda'.
克拉拉錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Butcher (human beings), murder, kill, slay, slaughter.
n. Butchery, slaughter, carnage.
校對:索尼亚
解釋/意思:
n. indiscriminate slaughter esp. with cruelty: carnage.—v.t. to kill with violence and cruelty: to slaughter.
卡拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I believe that we could make a massacre. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I would like to have the massacre here and the bridge, too. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I am averse to useless massacre. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There are set-backs, massacres, pestilence; but the story is, on the whole, one of enlargement. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Turks adopted violent repressive measures, and embarked upon massacres of Bulgarians on an enormous scale. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- All the massacres of Hulagu and Timurlane were as nothing to this. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They had probably been drifting about Western Asia for some centuries before the massacres of Timurlane drove them over the Hellespont. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They are massacring all within the amphitheatre. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I read of men concerned in public affairs governing or massacring their species. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- 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. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Every breathing creature within the walls was massacred. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The enemy main battle then broke and was massacred. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They were massacred. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Alva murdered, sacked, and massacred--in vain. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He then razed the castle to the ground, massacred the family and moved on. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Emperor Dessalines, come to power in 1804, massacred all the whites on the island. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He gained a victory at Jaffa, and, being short of provisions, _massacred all his prisoners_. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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